Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system ; the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".

The future is purchased by the present.

Peace begets prosperity; Prosperity begets pride; Pride begets prejudice; Prejudice begets war; War begets poverty.

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the dawn of victory, stopped to rest and resting died.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

One religion is as true as another.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Wisdom whispers - foolishness shouts.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.

"He was a very good hater."

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.