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Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. "Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it." She looks up and gives me her full gaze. "Don't be ridiculous," she purrs, "I wrote it." ~Dilys Laing, "Miao"



Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. ~Psalms 119:105



Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ~John Stuard Mill



If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist�s office would be full of luminous ideas. ~Mason Cooley



You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. ~Johnnetta Cole



The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown



Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons



Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne



Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde



When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter Drucker



I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. ~Stephen Vincent Benet



And I irritably reflected that you can't take a step from the equator to the poles without running into that suspicious face, those rapacious eyes, those clawlike hands and that vile mouth, which goes breathing the frightful verses of the Bible, in an odor of stale gin, over the charming divinities and adorable myths of naive religions. ~"The Garden," Chapter 5



We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick



As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ~Voltaire



Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel Macon



It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ~Desiderius Erasmus