Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. Unknown
Quotations by unknown authors Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. Kenny Ausubel I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger
US novelist & short story author (1919 - ) Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592) Human kind cannot bear much reality. T. S. Eliot
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965) To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3 Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. Confucius
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) | 
