To shirk your duty when you see it before you shows want of moral courage. Confucius, philosopher and teacher
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
"There is something comic about the incongruity between one's own and other people's estimation of one's work." --Sigmund Freud
Let us harness our collective energies to create a culture of peace and a land of prosperity. Arthur C. Clarke, writer and inventor
I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. John Cleese, comedian, actor and producer
and a second one . . . just because it is so true: There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark, explorer and writer
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. Dorothy Sayers, writer
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
A good quote from the famous guy who did AT40 from America's Birthday in 1970, ALL the way up to August 6 1988
One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, novelist, in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"
After doing some blackice in Ohio last week, this quote has even more of a meaning to me . . . Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
