Quote of the Day -- Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

-- Pablo Picasso

Quote of the Day -- Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to further progress. 

-- Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day -- Vernon Vinge

We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

-- Vernon Vinge

Quote of the Day -- Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

-- Beverly Sills

Quote of the Day -- Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

-- Confucius

Quote of the Day -- George Washington

Happiness depends more upon the internal flame of a person's own mind than on the externals of the world.

-- George Washington

Quote of the Day -- Paul Coelho

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

-- Paul Coelho

Quote of the Day -- Carl Sagan

If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed. 

-- Carl Sagan

Quote of the Day -- Richard Feynman

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

-- Richard Feynman

Quote of the Day -- Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

-- Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day -- Mary Oliver

When it's all over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

-- Mary Oliver

Quote of the Day -- Andy Warhol

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

-- Andy Warhol

Quote of the Day -- Ruth Reichl

But I have always been persuaded that someday, when I grow up, I am destined for great things. And then I wonder when, exactly, I expect that will be.

-- Ruth Reichl

Quote of the Day -- Sydney J Harris

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

-- Sydney J Harris

Quote of the Day -- Gordon Hempton

Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.

-- Gordon Hempton

Quote of the Day -- Thich Nhat Hanh

People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle.

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Quote of the Day -- George Eliot

There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. 

-- George Eliott

Quote of the Day -- Adam Smith

…the man who works so moderately as to be able to work constantly, not only preserves his health the longest, but in the course of the year, executes the greatest quantity of works. 

-- Adam Smith

Quote of the Day -- Lucille Ball

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. 

-- Lucille Ball