The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
- Louis Vermeil

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
- Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 – 1958)

One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor (1879 – 1964)

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
- Gilda Radner (1946 – 1989)

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984)

Knowledge isn’t nearly as importance as it’s application.
- Ganz

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
- Frank A. Clark

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821)

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
- Cynthia Ozick

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
- Gautama Buddha

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women’s names.
- Elaine Gill

Vigorous writing is concise.
- William Strunk Jr., “The Elements of Style”, 1919

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
- Edna Ferber (1887 – 1968)

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784)

Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 – 1988)

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 – 2008)

Never give advice unless asked.
- German Proverb

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877)

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.
- Dale Carnegie

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
- Simone de Beauvoir

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
- Robert Fritz

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
- Sydney J. Harris

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson (1899 – 1983)

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach

I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
- George Burns (1896 – 1996)

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
- Sharon Salzberg

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Dr. Robert Schuller

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965)

It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
- Paul “Bear” Bryant, I Ain’t Never Been Nothing but a Winner

Nobody can tell you if what you’re doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
- Robert Fritz

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
- Howard Scott (1926 – )

The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.
- Glenn Doman

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 – 1893)

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson (1899 – 1983)

If you’re here for four more years or four more weeks, you’re here right now. I think when you’re somewhere, you ought to be there. It’s not about how long you stay in a place, it’s about what you do while you’re there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?
- Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl, Northern Exposure, Soapy Sanderson, 1990

When it comes to IT products, don’t believe the hype, ever.
- Ganz

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

I still don’t get it, why do smart people pay top dollar for IT products that become obsolete in a year’s time. Haven’t they heard that products get better?
- Ganz

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)

I am not sure if there is such a thing as destiny or the fact that it applies to me. When I was young, my ambition was to be one of those people who made a difference in this world. I don’t even care if people remember my name because what good is praise to the dead but what matters most to me now is that I managed to do something really good and great for someone special.
-Ganz