It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings.

PETER MERE LATHAM

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

SOPHOCLES

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

If you want to win anything—a race, your self, your life—you have to go a little berserk.

GEORGE SHEEHAN

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

FEDERICO FELLINI

If you want to doctor life, maybe you need to be patient.

KUNGFUCIOUS

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

BRIAN ADAMS

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

MARGARET THATCHER

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find—nothing.

AESOP

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

EPICTETUS

Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now!

OREN ARNOLD

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

ISAIAH 2:4

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing—peace is the measure.

GEORGE MELTON

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

THOMAS KEMPIS

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

C. W. LEADBEATER

Have no fear of perfection— you'll never reach it.

SALVADOR DALI

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

CARDINAL NEWMAN

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

THOMAS EDISON

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Keep walking and keep smiling.

TINY TIM

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

JAPANESE PROVERB

Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old—with fifteen years of practice.

HARRY BLACKSTONE, JR.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

DOROTHY FIELDS

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

GEORGE CHAPMAN

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, And baffled, get up and begin again.

ROBERT BROWNING

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

PLUTARCH

Philanthropy is the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

OSCAR WILDE

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

ANDREW CARNEGIE

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

HIPPOCRATES

Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

ECCLESIASTICUS 38:1

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

JOEY BISHOP

It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

DAVE BARRY

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

THEODORE DREISER

If I had known my son was going to be president of Bolivia, I would have taught him to read and write.

ENRIQUE PENARANDA'S MOTHER

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

YOGI BERRA

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

LILY TOMLIN

I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they don't require as much cooking.

CARRIE SNOW

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

CHARLES LAMB

Every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

His renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

WASHINGTON IRVING

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

MARY WILSON LITTLE

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. ELIOT

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more real to us.

T. S. ELIOT

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

HENRY KISSINGER

I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession, and I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first.

RONALD REAGAN one year before he won the presidency

Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder, or takes notes—it's impossible.

PAT NIXON

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

JOHN BUCHAN

Politics is the grim jockeying for position, the ceaseless trading, the deliberate use of words not for communication but to screen intention. In short, a splendidly exciting game for those who play it.

GORE VIDAL

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

BARBARA JORDAN

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

HENRY FORD

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

MARIO BUATTA

I discovered the "something" in "nothing."

BARBRA STREISAND

One should sympathize with the joy, the beauty, the color of life—the less said about life's sores the better.

OSCAR WILDE

Try thinking of love or something.

CHRISTOPHER FRY

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

You've got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative.

JOHNNY MERCER

I think it's very important to be positive about everything in your life that's negative. You can turn a twist on it.

BARBRA STREISAND

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Aunt Maggie was every bit as worried as Mother but they'd take turns cheering each other up. Both of them were confirmed pessimists but never at the same time. Whichever one picked up the pessimism first evidently had a claim on it. The other would automatically assume the role of optimist, although always with a certain lack of conviction.

STEVE ALLEN

The sorrow of knowing that there is evil in the best, is far out-balanced by the joy of discovering that there is good in the worst.

DR. AUSTEN FOX RIGGS

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

ALPHONSE KARR

A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.

DON HEROLD

Alas, she married another; they frequently do; I hope she is happy—because I am.

ARTEMUS WARD

You put up with a few inconvenience when you live in a condemned building.

REVEREND JIM IGNATOWSKI TAXI

I can either complain about my mother not believing in me, or I can tell you it served me in some way to become who I am.

BARBRA STREISAND

Of course I wouldn't say anything about her unless I could say something good. And, oh boy, is this good . . .

BILL KING

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal—and soon they'll forget my number.

EDITH ARMSTRONG

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE