Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Hank Ketcham, comic artist

“The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.” -- Zen Saying

"It is only when you are in true darkness that you can see the stars"

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few."

"The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night."

"Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it." -C.S. Lewis

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
-e.e. cummings

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

-- Albert Einstein

If you don't do what you love you'll never get where you want to be.

-- Dr Robert Ballard

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
-Voltaire

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. "
-Jeanne Moreau

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
-Oscar Wilde

"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." - Peter Ustinov

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were."
--Anonymous

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can- there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. ~ Sarah Caldwell

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."
Don Williams, Jr.

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money."
-Cree Proverb

If you look like your passport photo, you probably need a holiday
- Anonymous

We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.
--Gypsy Proverb