"In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?"
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

But only the dance is sure! Make it your own. Who can tell what is to come of it?

--William Carlos Williams

But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind becomes used to the trivial things of everyday life, it may limit itself too much and decline completely into worthless thinking. Meanwhile, however, we must be on the lookout for the truth, keeping a sense of proportion so that we can distinguish what is sure from what is uncertain, and day from night.

-From English theologian Thomas Burnet's Archaeologiae Philosophicae (1692)

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." ~ Mark Twain

> Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
> Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
~ Samuel Butler

“He cultivated a biker image, but he was more the Marlon Brando-Wild Ones sensitive, brooding type. But funkier, way funkier.”
~ Phil Lesh, talking about Pigpen.

> If I could have one wish in the world, it would be that Pigpen could still be with us. I think it's safe to say we all miss Pigpen.
~ Phil Lesh

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

--James Russell Lowell

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

--Albert Einstein

> I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
~ Hermann Hesse

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

--Calvin Coolidge