"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." - Johann von Goethe

"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are." - Julius Charles Hare

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?"

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." - Sylvia Plath

"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice." - Steven D. Woodhull

"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." - Alice Walker

"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." - Janis Joplin

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy." - Hippocrates

"When you throw dirt, you lose ground."

"When I saw you earlier I knew that we had been together before. That's what love at first sight is. It's a reconnection of two old entertwined souls." - From the movie, "When the Party's Over"

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it." - Paul Vixie

"Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." -

H.L. Mencken

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." - John Cage

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift

"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself." - Elbert Hubbard

"A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key." - Paul Valéry

"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." - Henry Ward Beecher

"I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G.B. Burgin

"There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself." - Samuel Johnson

"Any fool can make a rule - and every fool will mind it." - Henry David Thoreau

"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it." - Albert Schweitzer

"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it." - Marcus T. Cicero

"Let mystery have its place in u; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ..." - Henri Frederic Amiel