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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Language Quotes We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774 He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952 Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. Aprocrypha High thoughts must have high language. Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Frogs, 405 B.C. Grasp the subject, the words will follow. Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC) Use soft words and hard arguments. English Proverb A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Ingrid Bengis When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) Deeds, not words shall speak me. John Fletcher (1579 - 1625) Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946) The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993) Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin (1939 - ) We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882 Words have a longer life than deeds. Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), Nemean Odes Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988 Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945) No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961) Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. William Penn (1644 - 1718) I understand a fury in your words, But not the words. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 4 scene 2 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3 They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 5 scene 1

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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Laughter Quotes We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912 Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. Bob Newhart (1929 - )Total absence of humor renders life impossible. Colette (1873 - 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952 Laughter is by definition healthy. Doris Lessing The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e e cummings (1894 - 1962) If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937) Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958 You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. Jay Leno (1950 - ) If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. Jimmy Buffett In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "Window in Bye Street", 1912 Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712 He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. Koran One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. Larry Gelbart Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) He who laughs, lasts! Mary Pettibone Poole You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard Laughter is inner jogging. Norman Cousins (1912 - 1990) I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world. Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004) You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. Stephen King (1947 - ), "Hearts in Atlantis" Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. The Talmud Laughter is the closest distance between two people. Victor Borge (1909 - 2000) Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)

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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Laws Quotes Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)Good laws have their origins in bad morals. Ambrosius Macrobius The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7 Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. Arcesilaus Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. Archbishop Ireland Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Law is mind without reason. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) Law is order, and good law is good order. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952) In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755) Law stands mute in the midst of arms. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Milone The people's good is the highest law. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Legibus The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex) Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD) It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. Earl Warren (1891 - 1974) Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965) The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) What power has law where only money rules. Gaius Petronius (~66 AD) The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. Glaser and Way A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence. Henry Brougham (1778 - 1868) The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992 Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. John Selden (1584 - 1654) The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be. Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898) Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws. Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. Roscoe Pound (1870 - 1964) Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. Sir John Powell Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people. William Blackstone (1723 - 1780) Necessity has no law. William Langland (1332 - 1400) Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 2
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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Laziness Quotes I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977 Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. Floyd Dell Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Decorum Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard (1864 - 1910) Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard (1864 - 1910) Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471) Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Leadership Quotes What luck for rulers that men do not think. Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975) A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) The crowd gives the leader new strength. Evenius Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. George Goethals (1858 - 1928) Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963 Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca (1924 - ) So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker

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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Learning Quotes Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), 1780 Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Eugene S. Wilson Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana (1863 - 1952) Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)

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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Liberals Quotes Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. AnonymousI am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832 The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975) The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), 'Notebook,' 1935 The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935 When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. Robert Anton Wilson A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936 A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. Willis Player

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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Lies Quotes Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939 The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927) A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Lenin (1870 - 1924) A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo A liar should have a good memory. Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17. Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Creusa
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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Life Quotes You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000 The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957) Life is too important to take seriously. Corky Siegel The purpose of life is to fight maturity. Dick Werthimer Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment" It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950) Life is just one damned thing after another. Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915) Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ) Life is something that everyone should try at least once. Henry J. Tillman Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon (1940 - 1980), "Beautiful Boy" The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold then in the right scale of values. Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968) Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872 Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's , 1892, Act I Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries Life is a sexually transmitted disease. R. D. Laing The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984 Life is just a bowl of pits. Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004) Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) The unexamined life is not worth living for man. Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975) Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - ) Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. William Goldman, "The Princess Bride" Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King John", Act 3 scene 4 Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. Woody Allen (1935 - ) Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. Woody Allen (1935 - ) The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Light Quotes In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Aaron Rose You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993 In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber (1894 - 1961) What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972), Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993) Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004 We burn daylight. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4

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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Listening Quotes There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923) No man ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. Dorothy Sarnoff When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. Frank Tyger A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. Katharine Whitehorn A good listener is usually thinking about something else. Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930) Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. Mignon McLaughlin Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. Nick Diamos It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD) As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. Po Bronson, quoted in Publishers Weekly A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)

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Submitted by LonelySoul E-mail: xxx.dom@hotmail.com Loneliness Quotes Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991 To be an adult is to be alone. Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Thoughts of a biologist (1939) People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03 The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973) They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976 No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone. Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - ), Isn't It Romantic, 1983