Carlos Santana

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Mary Oliver

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Donald Trump

Everything in life is luck.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1846)

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Will Rogers (1879-1935)

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Albert Camus (1913-1960)

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Eric Clapton

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007)

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Wayne Gretzky

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Bruce Lee (1940-1973)

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bob Dylan

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Confucius (551 BC-479 BC)

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Lao Tzu (c. 450 BC)

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Don Rickles

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

John Abercrombie

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

Black Elk (1863-1950)

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

Lily Tomlin

“Remember we're all in this alone.”

Mignon Mclaughlin (1913-1983)

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Gordon Lightfoot

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

Buddha (563 BC-483 BC)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Bruce Lee (1940-1973)

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Hugh Hefner

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Ringo Starr

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Joni Mitchell

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.