Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything does dead wrong; For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always comes with the years, But the smile that is worth the praise of earth Is the smile that comes through tears. . . . . But the virtue that conquers passion, And the sorrow that hides in a smile-- It is these that are worth the homage of earth, For we find them but once in a while.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.

A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington.

Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes? Does it blow so strong that she must fetch Her breath in sudden sighs?

Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.

While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the barn door Stoutly struts his dames before.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th' eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.