"believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
- buddha
"Today, we do more than celebrate America; we rededicate ourselves to the very idea of America ... an idea tempered by the knowledge that, but for fate, we - the fortunate and the unfortunate - might have been each other ..."
- Bill Clinton
"... installments are dutifully paid for a lifetime - and the debt is not relieved ..... guilt has no valid currency."
- I believe this is taken from a passage in the book "Simon's Family" by Marianne Fredriksson. My apologies to the author if I erred in my notes. (Outstanding book, by the way!)
"History does not repeat itself - but it rhymes."
- Exact source of original unknown
"Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us."
- Unknown Blackfoot Chief - circa 1880
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
- Ellen DeGeneres
"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
- Albert Einstein
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."
- Mother Teresa
"If you are lucky enough to do well, it is your responsibility to send the elevator back down."
- Kevin Spacey