| Ideas and Beliefs "Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish." --Mark Twain "Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them." --Alfred North Whitehead "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research." --Anon. "Nothing else in the world . . . not all the armies . . . is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo "You can believe whatever you like. The universe however, is not obliged to keep a straight face"--Lisa Harris "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow." --Charles Brower "Midlife is, I think, a time for sorting out, for deciding what is important." --Ellen Goodman "Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are." --Madeline L'Engle "In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue." -- Ethan Allen "The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so." --David Hume "Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind." --Alice Meynell "We are what we believe we are." --Benjamin N. Cardozo "What we think, we become." �Buddha "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." --Anna Freud "Don't rent space to anyone in your head." --Anon. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt "He is a real pessimist � he could look at a doughnut and only see the hole in it." --Anon. "Man is what he believes." --Anton Chekhov "Your problem is you're . . . too busy holding onto your unworthiness." --Ram Dass |