Fuel to Enrich Your Soul from Masters of Wisdom: "Wisdom Is Joy, Time an Endless River." W.B. Yeats

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are a cheese. Luis Buñuel.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. W.H. Auden.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. Leo Rosten.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. Abbie Hoffman.

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind. Kenneth Patchen.

My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it. Jim Harrison.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Youth is not a time of life — it is a state of mind. Samuel Ullman.

"I had stumbled up the stairs in the dark and when the lights came on — there I was."
Bradford Wayne Holland — cartoonist

Do we mean love — when we say love? Samuel Beckett.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud — 'I believe' three times. Ovid tended to the emotional, not the argumentative, pole of literature.

Outstanding writing has to have a definite sense of drive, a power to propel the reader onward. What I look for is the flow of the story. Haruki Murakami.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence. B.R. Ambedkar.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. Circumstances do not make the man — they reveal him. James Allen.

I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in. I was born with the need to be the center of attention. Julie Christie.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work & play. The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. Arnold J. Toynbee.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight-or-flight response. Daniel Goleman, "On Emotional Intelligence."

I don't want to sound facetious, but humor is the key to the soul. Martin Lawrence.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. Peter Ustinov.

To know you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

All of us are better when we're loved. Allstair Macleod.