Quotes Pf-Pz "I am always doing things I can't do; that's how I get to do them." -- Pablo Picasso "The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." -- Robert M. Pirsig "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- Plato "Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." -- Jules-Henri Poincare "Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of other. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what folk you are." -- Emily Post "None of us can change our yesterdays, but all of us can change our tomorrows." -- Colin Powell "In modern politics the post of monarch has been abolished, and the president is not held responsible for the comforts of the citizens. In this Age of Kali, the executive head of a state somehow or other gets votes and is elected to an exalted post, but the condition of the citizens continues to be full of anxiety, distress, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction." -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada "Veni, vermini, vomui, I came, I got ratted, I threw up? Visi, veneri, vamoosi, I visited, I caught an embarassing disease, I ran away?" -- Terry Pratchett in Jingo "Don't try the paranormal until you know what's normal." -- Terry Pratchett "If you want to see a fantasy world, open your eyes and step outside." -- Terry Pratchett "No star is ever lost once we have seen it." -- Adelaide A. Proctor "We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams." -- Bob Proctor "If you gave me all the kisses in the world, they would still be too few." -- Sesto Properzio "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -- Marcel Proust "I loved you; and perhaps I love you still, The flame, perhaps, is not extinguished; yet It burns so quietly within my soul, No longer should you feel distressed by it. Silently and hopelessly I loved you, At times too jealous and at times too shy. God grant you find another who will love you As tenderly and truthfully as I." -- Alexander Pushkin "Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone." -- Pyrrhus, after whom we get the expression "Pyrrhic vitory": a victory at a great cost Index