"Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream." -Reinhold Niebuhr

"The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." -Helen Rowland

"Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy � if not less of it � doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do." --Terry McMillan

"I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick' . . . A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." -James Thurber

"A laugh is a terrible weapon." -Kate O'Brien

"Always make sure that what you think you see is not just what you want to see" -Unknown

"Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills." -Miguel de Cervantes (from Don Quixote)

"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow" -Aesop

"That white horse you see in the park could be a zebra synchronized with the railings." -Ann Jellicoe (from The Knack)

"I am suspicious of guilt in myself and other people: it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities, the better to be rid of them fast." -Lillian Hellman

"It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!" -Merrill Markoe