I am finally going through my office and trying to sort out all of the paperwork. Its hard to decide what to keep, what to throw away, and what to give to others. I often feel like a treasure hunter when I do projects like this. I never know when a paper will pop up that has something to do with Michael. I found this list of quotes. I think he was preparing for a talk in church and just started compiling all of the quotes that spoke to him. The stared one is what he chose to use. He had a little mark next to it to remind himself. :) I decided that this would be the best way to preserve the list without having to keep that one sheet of paper from getting lost again. Reading these quotes made me laugh a lot. Some of them are very him.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, ad intellect has intended us to forgo their use." Galileo Galilei
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Doscours de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back." Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Dancing is silent poetry." Simonides (556-468bc)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved'- the pig was 'committed'." -unknown
"If you are going through hell, keep going." Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." Friedrich Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." Voltaire (1694-1778)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Facts are the enemy of truth." Don Quixote- "Man of La Mancha"
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." Anais Nin (1903-1977)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." Steven Wright
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." Gilbert Deith Chesterton (1874-1936)
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1955)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." Frank Zappa
"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working." Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." Isaac Asimov
* "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." Carl Sagan
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." G.B. Burgin
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix
"A clever man commits no minor blunders." Goethe (1749-1832)
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." Richard Bach
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera." James Stephens (1882-1950)
"It was the experience of mystery- even if mixed with fear- that engendered religion." Albert Einstein (1870-1955)
"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to e looking for it." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"While we are postponing, life speeds by." Seneca (3BC-65AD)
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?" Bumper Sticker
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." The Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life.
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." W.B. Prescott
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
