My Favorite Quotes

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging.
Molly Ivins

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations that require the use of his superior skill.
Aviation proverb

If you think you have it tought, red history books.
Bill Maher

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll get to enjoy it a second time.
H. Jackson Brown Jr

It is the weak who are cruel, and gentleness is to be expected only from the strong
Leo Rosten

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good
Malcolm Gladwell

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly
Edward Albee

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting
Fran Lebowitz

It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them
Agatha Christie

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself; First, What can I do? Second, What can I read? Third, Who can I ask?
Jim Rohn

The truth needs so little rehearsal
Barbara Kingsolver

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile
Goldie Hawn

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them
Bill Maher

Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're in the right
Ricky Gervais

Hoping for something is always good for the soul
B. Traven

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become
Oprah Winfrey

No pressure, no diamonds
Mary Case

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
Hannibal Buress

For my sister Alison on her the event of her high school graduation

A young girl stands resolute, at the edge of all she sees,
She's determined and she's strong, yet unsure of what will be.
Her family stands behind her, with arms held open wide
The love of eighteen years shining brightly in their eyes.

A child raised in faith, a daughter reared in love
Guided and adored by a Father from above.
Blessed with many talents made to comfort and to cheer
Her gifts have touched many lives throughout her childhood years.

Her music touches hearts, each and every time she plays.
Whenever bow and strings connect, she shines with Heaven's rays.
The years have only added to the strength and grace she holds
When Heaven made this special child, they truly broke the mold.

Eighteen years have come and gone and memories abound.
The good and bad, the happy and sad, each have come around.
With love of friends and family, she'll make her way through strife,
With support and love, below and above, she'll gain eternal life.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown

Treat a person as he is , and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and will become what he should be
Jimmy Johnson

A voice calls on the wind of fate,
Whispers across the sea of time.
Pleading with me not to wait,
To make a change in this heart of mine.

A habit broken and reformed,
A promise made but never kept.
Change I always seem to scorn,
Resolve, away from me has swept.

To make or break a persistent thought,
To teach my mind to see the right.
My heart remembers the lessons taught,
My soul shall see with newfound sight.

A spirit full of yearning
A heart that's full of pain
A mind that's ever learning
To rise and rise again.

To see the lesson in the trial
To find the blessing hidden within
To reach the end of every mile
And endlessly begin again.

If only for one moment
My soul unchained and free
Had felt that God's atonement
Released the chains on me.

Oh, then I'd feel the weight be lifted
No longer drowning be
My everlasting soul be gifted
With the blessings of eternity.