"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing." Socrates

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." Disraeli

"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." George Santayana

"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it." Harry Truman

"A fact is not a truth until you love it." John Keats

"For knowledge, too, is itself a power." Francis Bacon

"Failure is the test of greatness." Herman Melville

"Sometimes the best way to see daylight is to moonlight" [Barbados, W.I.] Sunday Sun

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Walt Disney

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." Bertrand Russell

"If you're lonely while you're alone, you're in bad company." Jean-Paul Sartre

"Laughter is therapy--an instant vacation." Bob Hope

"Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head." Ray Bradbury

"I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's." Rosie O'Donnell

"He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Ecclesiastes 1: 18

"Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple--teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise--follow him." Arabic apothegm

"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight." Mark Twain

"We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you can't help them at least don't hurt them." The Dalai Lama

"Service to others is the rent we pay here for our time on earth." Muhammad Ali

"It is the belief and not the god that counts." Wallace Stevens

Gertrude Stein, on her deathbed, said to the friends who gathered around her, "What is the answer?" After no response, she smiled and said, "In that case, what is the question?" Gertrude Stein (from intro to The Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, ed. Carl Van Vechten, NY: Modern Library, l962.)

"What does it all mean? Just one thing. And that one thing is different for everyone." City Slickers

"Focus, Daniel-san." Karate Kid

"You ask: what is life? It is the same as asking what is a carrot. A carrot is a carrot and that is all that's known." Anton Chekhov

"There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up." George Burns

"A life spent making mistakes is more useful than a life spent doing nothing." George Bernard Shaw

"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." Ann Landers

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"He who knows how to be poor knows everything." French historian Jules Michelet

"Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge." Sen. Paul Simon

"If you are lucky enough to have money or influence, you are responsible to use it in a correct way, to do useful things. Without sharing, there is no happiness in life." actress Penelope Cruz

"There are two kinds of people--givers and takers--complicated by the fact that most of the takers like to think that they're givers." James Plath

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein

"In matters of priniciple, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current." Thomas Jefferson

"Be sure you are right, then go ahead." Davy Crockett

"Trying is the first step toward failure." Homer Simpson

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Dan Quayle

"Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift." Uma Thurman

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"Conscience is the mother-in-law whose visit never ends." H.L. Mencken

"Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living--family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar ..." Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it." Ralph Fiennes

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you are bound to see every problem as a nail." Barbadian teacher Jeff Broomes

"On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures." Fidel Castro

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." Sydney J. Harris

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." Mark Twain

"The road to success is always under construction." Arnold Palmer

"I appreciate honesty . . . especially in other people." Lorian Hemingway

"When I was born, I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half." Gracie Allen

"Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime." Flannery O'Connor

"Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties." John Updike (from The Witches of Eastwick)

"Work is an almost pure expression of the self." Chase Twichell

"Pressure is something you put on yourself." Bill Cowher (football coach, Pittsburgh Steelers)

"If I had to live my life over again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." Tallulah Bankhead

"Coincidences are spiritual puns." G.K. Chesterton

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." Ernest Hemingway

"Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up Yours.'" Robert Byrne

"Ninety percent of everything is crap." Theodore Sturgeon

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" Abraham Lincoln

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing." Marcus Aurelius

"If two people talk long enough, there's going to be an argument." Sam Racine

"[Marriage] is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. That's what makes marriage last, more than passion or sex." Simone Signoret

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" Jean Cocteau

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." Clarence Darrow

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." Horace Walpole

"A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged." John Updike

"Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on." Mike Royko