The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

MARIA MONTESSORI

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

KINGMAN BREWSTER

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

GRAYSON KIRK

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

DAVID P. GARDNER

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?"

SIMONE WEIL

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

MARTIN H. FISCHER

In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.

HEART WARRIOR CHOSA

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

EDITH WHARTON

The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

MICHELANGELO

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

EMILY BRONTË

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before! We have evidently tapped a new level of energy. There may be layer after layer of this experience, a third and fourth "wind." We find amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed, because habitually we never push through the obstruction of fatigue.

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

JOHN MILTON

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.

JOHN RUSKIN

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

GLEN BUCK

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured with age.

CHARLES COLTON

Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

PAUL GOODMAN

All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

SAMUEL BUTLER

There is no time like the pleasant.

OLIVER HERFORD

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

FRED ALLEN

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't—it just keeps you from enjoying it.

CLEVELAND AMORY

If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

LEO ROSTEN

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

Don't expect to enjoy life if you keep your milk of human kindness all bottled up.

ANONYMOUS

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

PINDAR.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

TOM STOPPARD

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

RICHARD JEFFRIES

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

ROSSITER RAYMOND COMMENDATORY PRAYER

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

MAE WEST

If you resist evil, as soon as it's gone, you'll fold.

KEN KESEY

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"EVIL" is "LIVE" spelled backwards.

ANONYMOUS

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

EDMUND BURKE

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding over man's capacity for evil.

DAVID SARNOFF

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

ROBERT TOWNSEND

Come, give us a taste of your quality.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness. I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

ROBERT FROST

Not as bad as you might have imagined.

CALVIN TRILLIN motto suggested for New Jersey

Your request for no MSG was ignored.

FORTUNE COOKIE

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.

MARK TWAIN

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE [arriving in heaven]: It's not what I expected. GOD: What did you expect? SARTRE: Nothing.

SCTV

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

HENRY FORD

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory.

PRESTON BRADLEY

The talking picture will not supplant the regular silent motion picture.

THOMAS EDISON

Women may be said to be an inferior man.

ARISTOTLE

The phonograph is not of any commercial value.

THOMAS EDISON

With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market for itself.

BUSINESS WEEK, 1968

The radio craze will soon die out.

THOMAS EDISON