There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty to live on happily and to be at peace with his neighbors.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

Abundance consists not alone in material possession but in an uncovetous spirit.

CHARLES SHELDON

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for Christian charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

ROSWELL D. HITCHCOCK

To have life more abundant, we must think in the limitless terms of abundance.

THOMAS DREIER

If we do more with less, our resources will be adequate to take care of everybody.

R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

ALEXANDER POPE

MAE WEST: For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. INTERVIEWER: Did you reform? MAE WEST: No; I'm not ashamed anymore.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Paradise is where I am.

VOLTAIRE

In the valleys you look for the mountains In the mountains you've searched for the rivers There is no where to go You are where you belong You can live the life you dreamed.

JUDY COLLINS

The person who says, believes, and acts on the phrase "I ain't taking any shit from anybody" is a very busy person indeed. This person must be ever vigilant against news vendors who shortchange him, cab drivers who take him the wrong way around, waiters who serve the other guy first, florists who are charging ten cents more per tulip than the one down the block, pharmacists who make you wait too long and cars that cut you off at the light: they are a veritable miasma of righteous indignation and never have a minute to relax and have a good time.

CYNTHIA HEIMEL

Mr. Salter's side of the conversation was limited to expressions of assent. When Lord Copper was right he said, "Definitely, Lord Copper"; when he was wrong, "Up to a point." "Let me see, what's the name of the place I mean? Capital of Japan? Yokohama, isn't it?" "Up to a point, Lord Copper." "And Hong Kong belongs to us, doesn't it?" "Definitely, Lord Copper."

EVELYN WAUGH

Everyone is in the best seat.

JOHN CAGE

I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

P. G. WODEHOUSE

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

BRENDAN FRANCIS

And that's the way it is.

WALTER CRONKITE

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

KEN KESEY

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

ALAN WATTS

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

MARCUS ANTONINUS

Do or do not. There is no try.

YODA

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

DR. ROB GILBERT

The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.

HENEAGE OGILVIE

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

EARL WARREN

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

GEORG HEGEL

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

GERMAN PROVERB

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough merely to guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

ALEXIS CARREL

'Tis God gives skill, But not without men's hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins without Antonio.

STRADIVARIUS

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

JOSH BILLINGS

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Go directly—see what she's doing, and tell her she mustn't.

PUNCH

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

OSCAR WILDE

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

ROBERT HEINLEIN

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.

MEL BROOKS

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

CONFUCIUS

In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

MOLIÈRE

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.

DUGUET

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action.

JOHN HANCOCK FIELD

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

PINDAR

"Do-so" is more important than "say-so."

PETE SEEGER

The shortest answer is doing.

LORD HERBERT

You can't build a reputation on what you're GOING to do.

HENRY FORD

Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.

DAME ROSE MACAULY

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN

I said to the wife,"Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one." And she said, "I'll bet it's that stuck-up Phyllis at number 23."

MAX KAUFFMANN

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

GEORGE S. KAUFMAN: I like your bald head, Marc. It feels just like my wife's behind. MARC CONNOLLY [feeling his head]: So it does, George, so it does.

'Tis the established custom (in Vienna) for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name and another that performs the duties.

MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU

I think a man can have two, maybe three affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you are cheating.

YVES MONTAND

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS

Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.

MARILYN MONROE

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

SA'ID

When times are good, be happy, but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other.

ECCLESIASTES 7:14

The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

SENECA

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

EDWARD WESTCOTT

Well—washed and well—combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

FRANCIS GALTON

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

ANNE BRADSTREET

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

ALBERT CAMUS

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

DYLAN THOMAS

Oh don't the days seem lank and long, when all goes right and nothing goes wrong. And isn't your life extremely flat, with nothing whatever to grumble at!

W. S. GILBERT

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

ANONYMOUS

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

CARL JUNG

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

God gave burdens, also shoulders.

YIDDISH PROVERB

One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.

DENIS WAITLEY

That which doesn't destroy us makes us stronger.

OLD SAYING

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

ADAM LINDSAY GORDON

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice; because I will have no man's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

LORD CHESTERFIELD

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Advice to expectant mothers: you must remember that when you are pregnant, you are eating for two. But you must remember that the other one of you is about the size of a golf ball, so let's not go overboard with it. I mean, a lot of pregnant women eat as though the other person they're eating for is Orson Welles.

DAVE BARRY

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

ERICA JONG

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES (on Susan Hampshire's decolletagé)

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

DAVID ZUCKER

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

GORE VIDAL

KEVIN KLINE [meeting his hero, Sir John Gielgud]: Mr. Gielgud, do you have any advice for a young actor about to make his first film in London? GIELGUD [after pondering the question for some time]: The really good restaurants are in Chelsea and the outlying regions—you want to avoid the restaurants in the big hotels.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

ARTURO TOSCANINI advise for pianist Vladimir Horowitz

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR. to novice political campaigner Dwight D. Eisenhower

Put your ass into the ball, Mr. President!

SAM SNEAD advising President Eisenhower on his golf swing

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the "as if" technique.

You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

J. B. S. HALDANE

You think too much, that is your trouble. Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything.

ZORBA THE GREEK

I'll moider de bum.

TONY TWO-TON GALENTO

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

THOMAS FULLER

His huff arrived, and he departed in it.

ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT

I suppose I overdo it, but when I'm mad at a man I want to climb right up his chest.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

He owned and operated a ferocious temper.

THOMAS YBARRA

Anybody can become angry—that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

ARISTOTLE

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

EPICTETUS

This is, I think, very much the Age of Anxiety.

LOUIS KRONENBERGER (1954)

Anxiety is the space between the "now" and the "then."

FRITZ PERLS

Every little yielding to anxiety is a step away from the natural heart of man.

JAPANESE PROVERB

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

MARK TWAIN

Most human beings use their public life like a visiting card. They show it to others and say, This is me. The others take the card and think to themselves, If you say so. But most human beings have another life too, a gray one, lurking in the darkness, torturing us, a life we try to hide like an ugly sin.

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

ORSON WELLES

My problem is intense vanity and narcissism. I've always had such a good physique and such intense charm that it's difficult to be true to myself.

LAWRENCE DURRELL

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck; it endears her to the men who want to make their mammet of her, but she is never allowed to think that their popping eyes actually see her.

GERMAINE GREER

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lipgrafting, or "fat recycling," wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips; people will then be literally kissing your ass.

DAVE BARRY

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

GORE VIDAL

Only the really plain people know about love. The very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.

ROBERT UPDEGRAFF

That must be wonderful; I don't understand it at all.

MOLIÈRE

To the dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

ANDRÉ GIDE

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

ABRAHAM MASLOW

The great joy of the artist is to become aware of a higher order of things, to recognize by the compulsive and spontaneous manipulation of his own impulses the resemblance between human creation and what is called "divine" creation.

HENRY MILLER

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

He always did have that "Touch of Madness" that marks the true artist and breaks the hearts of the young girls from fine homes.

ROBERT CRUMB

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

HENRY MOORE

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

GEORGE WALD

Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us—Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

JACOB BRONOWSKI

In atomic physics, we can never speak of nature without, at the same time, speaking of ourselves.

FRITJOF CAPRA