Master Communicatrix

I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

I've learned that I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it.

I've learned that we are responsible for what we do, unless we are celebrities.

Loving animals is a substitute activity.

Mothers shouldn't make too many sacrifices.

When something terrible happens, people wake up.

Much was decided before you were born.

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

Men who say they are sensitive are really self-centered.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854

Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?
Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.
Rita Mae Brown

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo DaVinci

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Dreams
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
--Langston Hughes

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an attentive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.
Robert Henri

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not leave it to others to transform themselves… This is our responsibility, yours and mine; because however small may be the world we live in, if we can bring about a radically different point of view in our daily existence, then perhaps we shall affect the world at large.
Krishnamurti

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a rising star.
Friedrich Nietzsche