“Cutting off a mule’s ears doesn’t make it a horse.” — Creole proverb
“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.” — Konrad Adenauer
“Everyone that crosses your mind shouldn’t have access to your heart.” — Unknown
“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” — Warren Buffett
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.” — Nikki Giovanni
“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you are an artist.” — David Hockney
“Wealth is any income that is at least one hundred dollars a year more than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.” — H.L. Mencken
“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than them.” — Chinese Proverb
“Never water yourself down just because someone can’t handle you at 100 proof.” — Unknown
“Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” — Steven Pressfield
“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.” — Steven Wright
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through.[sic]” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” — Jack LaLanne
“Look closely at wisdom – there is a very small space between ‘“wiz’ and ‘dumb'” — Chase Leblanc
“As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.” — Proverbs 27:19
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” — George Washington
“Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm.’ And the warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.'” — Unknown
“He’s completely unspoiled by failure.” — Noel Coward
“The seed never explains the flower.” — Edith Hamilton
” Any event,once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.” — Lee Simonson
“When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.” — Vanna Bonta
“Insanity doesn’t run in my family; it gallops.” — Cary Grant
“Necessity dispenseth with decorum.” — Thomas Carlyle
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.” — Martha Graham
“There’s nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” — Stephanie Coontz
“If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.” — Yogi Berra
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
– Steve McCurry
“Photograph by Jeff Ross, Eureka, CA – Victorian House”
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.” — George Orwell
“Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won’t be an end.” — Anthony Robbins
“It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.” — Evelyn Underhill
“It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.” — Deng Xiaoping
“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” — Maya Angelou
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” — Havelock Ellis
“People are often as motivated by the fear of loss as they are by the desire for gain.” — Seth Godin
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” — Mark Twain