“I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.”

S.J. Perelman

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”

Vince Lombardi

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Samuel Johnson

“Christmas would be meaningless without Easter.”

Heard at a Christmas Eve Mass a few years ago

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

Leo Tolstoy

“Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know” Confucius

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’

Alfred Lord Tennyson

“As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.”

Merriweather Lewis