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None of us is as smart as all of us. - Phil Condit.
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| 1. When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
- Frederic Bastiat |
2. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams |
| 3. A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - John le Carre | 4. Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. - Kin Hubbard |
| 5. Good manners are like traffic rules for society.
- Michael Levine |
6. Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. - Chuck Norris |
| 7. Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. - Duke Snider | 8. A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. - Danish proverb |
| 9. Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. - Brett Butler | 10. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other. - Jan Blaustone |
| 11. Frienship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen | 12. What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. - George Bernard Shaw |
| 13. You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. - Jay Leno | 14. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
- Susan Sontag |
| 15. No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by
the successful teacher.
- Sir William Osler |
16. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations
writers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin |
| 17. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which
he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel |
18. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - Helen Keller |
| 19. I have one request: May I never use my reason against truth. - Elie Wiesel | 20. When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have. - Kathleen A. Sutton |
| 21. There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives thet are hard to come by. - Annie Dillard | 22. Making long-term decisions requires short-term difficulties. - Larry Demarest |
| 23. A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog. - Jack London | 24. There are three ways to get something done; Do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children to do it. - Monta Crane |
| 25. It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. - James Thurber | 26. Wildflowers don't care where they grow.
- Dolly Parton |
| 27. Good teaching is one fourth preparation and three fourths theatre. - Gall Godwin | 28. There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. - David W. Johnson |
| 29. Among my most-prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. -Orson Rega Card | 30. The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented
so we would have to.
- Cullen Hightower |
| 31. Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it. - Sam Rayburn | 32. Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? - Frank Scully |
| 33. April is nature's reveille of the year.
- Bern Williams |
34. The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. - Henry Boye |
| 35. There are two situations that make interesting stories: when an
extraordinary person is plunged into the commonplace, and when an ordinary
person gets involved in extraordinary events.
- Sister Helen Prejean, ("Dead Man Walking") |
36.There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourselfhave altered. - Nelson Mandela |
| 37. High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. -Tennessee Willjams (Memoirs) | 38. History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. - Mark Yost |
| 39. Statesman rise and fall on the smallest of actions.
- Mark Helprin |
40. Income-tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. - Shelby Friedman |
| 41. Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there - Will Smith | 42. Fear and' hope are alike underneath.
- Richard Ford ("Independence Day") |
| 43. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of
quality; the other, a matter of time.
- Marabel Morgan ("The Electric Woman") |
44. Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person
to be loved
- Barbara Johnson |
| 45. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and
lets the future in.
- Graham Greene ("The Power and the Glory") |
46. The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.- Joseph Sobran |
| 47. In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little. - Robert J. Samuelson | 48. The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. - Elaine Agather |
| 49. Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. - George Sheehan | 50. Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. - Jimmy Johnson |
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