This is a collection of quotes that for one reason or another I enjoy reading.

• Ronald Reagan's Challenger disaster speech.  Click here.
• "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."  Linus Pauling
• "To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."  Josh Billings
• "Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in giving creates love."  Lao-tzu
• "Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."  Samuel Johnson
• "I always wanted to be somebody... but I should've been more specific."  Lily Tomlin
• "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."  Logan Piersall Smith
• "You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do."  Olin Miller
• "If you can't change the circumstances, change your perspective" Anonymous
• Six tips to simplifying your life: 1. resign from any organization whose meetings you dread, 2. learn to live with less information, 3. work where you live or vice versa, 4. be in bed by 9 p.m. one night a week, 5. live on half your pay, save the rest.  Elaine St. James
• "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could've done better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and gloom, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those whose timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."  Theodore Roosevelt
• "The true test of being comfortable with someone else is the ability to share silence." Frank Tyger
• "A man always has two reasons for the things he does - a good one and the real one." J.P. Morgan
• "May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have." Richard Evans
• "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." Mark Twain
• "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."    Peter Drucker
• "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."    Charlie Brown
• "I never knew what real love happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late."    Max Kauffman
• "The biggest liar in the world is 'They Say'"    Douglas Malloch
• Some good advice: first, the jacket of your suit does not work as a sports coat, people will know; second, sports coats can be worn with everything from trousers and a shirt and tie to a turtleneck and jeans; third, match your shoes to the type of pants; fourth, if you're under 5'8", opt for a 3-button model to create a longer line, if husky  go 1-button, if tall and lean you can wear anything; and lastly, on 2- and 3-button models, never button the bottom button.
• "The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked."    Pablo Casals
• "More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying that they made them."
• "Just because everything is different doesn't mean that anything has changed."    Irene Peter
• "A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it."     Herbert V. Prochnow
• "I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly."       Joseph Heller
• "A great society is a society in which the men of business think greatly of their functions."    Alfred North Whitehead
• "Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm."    C. Wright Mills
• "Birth is the beginning of death"    Thomas Fuller
• "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."     Sydney J. Harris
• "Man is what he believes."    Anton Chekhov
• "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."    Dante Alighieri
• "Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about everything, we ought to know a little about everything."    Blaise Pascal
• "One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The flower that once has blown forever dies."    Edward FitzGerald
• "In his private heart no man respects himself."     Mark Twain
• "Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."  George Santayana
• "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."    Wilson Mizner
• "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."    Alfred Korzybski
• "Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity."    L.A. Safian
• "True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."    Charles Caleb Colton
• "I was never less alone than while by myself."    Edward Gibbon
• "I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."    Henry David Thoreau
• "Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness."    William Godwin    
• "We work to become, not to acquire."    Elbert Hubbard
• "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."    James M. Barrie