Monday, December 31, 2012

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.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)


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

Saturday, December 29, 2012

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.

Friday, December 28, 2012

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.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Donald Trump


Everything in life is luck.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1846)


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

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


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

Monday, December 24, 2012

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.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Will Rogers (1879-1935)


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

Friday, December 21, 2012

Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

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.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Edgar Allan Poe


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

Monday, December 17, 2012

Eric Clapton


An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


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

Friday, December 14, 2012

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.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

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.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Wayne Gretzky


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

Monday, December 10, 2012

Bruce Lee (1940-1973)


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

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Bob Dylan


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

Saturday, December 8, 2012

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.

Friday, December 7, 2012

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.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

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.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Don Rickles


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

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


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

Monday, December 3, 2012

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)


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

Sunday, December 2, 2012

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.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)


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

Friday, November 30, 2012

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.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)


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

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Lily Tomlin


“Remember we're all in this alone.”

Monday, November 26, 2012

Mignon Mclaughlin (1913-1983)


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

Sunday, November 25, 2012

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.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Buddha (563 BC-483 BC)


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

Friday, November 23, 2012

Lao Tzu


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

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

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.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

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.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)


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

Sunday, November 18, 2012

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)


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

Saturday, November 17, 2012

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.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Bill Gates


Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)


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

Monday, November 12, 2012

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)


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

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Ringo Starr


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

Saturday, November 10, 2012

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.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Paul Klee (1879-1940)


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

Thursday, November 8, 2012

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?

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)


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