Quote of the Day -- Arthur Vanderbilt

Taxes are the lifeblood of government and no taxpayer should be permitted to escape the payment of his just share of the burden of contributing thereto. 

-- Arthur Vanderbilt

Quote of the Day -- Louis Brandeis

If we desire respect for the law we must first make the law respectable.

 -- Louis Brandeis

Quote of the Day -- Octavia Butler

As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.

-- Octavia Butler

Quote of the Day -- Benjamin Franklin

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. 

-- Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the Day -- Martin Luther King

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. 

-- Martin Luther King

Quote of the Day -- Albert Ellis

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

 -- Albert Ellis

Quote of the Day -- Corazon Aquino

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things—with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. 

-- Corazon Aquino

Quote of the Day -- Clara Barton

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

-- Clara Barton

Quote of the Day -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quote of the Day -- Margaret Chase Smith

It is high time that we stopped thinking politically as Republicans and Democrats about elections and started thinking patriotically as Americans about national security based on individual freedoms. It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life. 

-- Margaret Chase Smith

Quote of the Day -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. 

-- Ruth Bader Ginbsurg

 1933 - 2020 RIP

Quote of the Day -- Kenichi Ohmae

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. 

-- Kenichi Ohmae

Quote of the Day -- Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. 

-- Alfred North Whitehead

Quote of the Day -- Samuel Johnson

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends.  

-- Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day -- Laura Esquivel

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves.

-- Laura Esquivel

Quote of the Day -- John F. Kennedy

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters — one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. 

-- John F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day -- Bryna Nelson Patson

Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, ten, and eleven. 

-- Bryna Nelson Patson

Quote of the Day -- Trevor Noah

I don’t regret anything I’ve done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. 

-- Trevor Noah

Quote of the Day -- Martha Nussbaum

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think. 

-- Martha Nussbaum

Quote of the Day -- Jorge Luis Borges

So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. 

 -- Jorge Luis Borges

Quote of the Day -- Lucille Clifton

One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

 -- Lucille Clifton

Quote of the Day -- Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. 

-- Gandhi

Quote of the Day - William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, 
Are a substantial world, both pure and good: 
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, 
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

-- William Wordsworth

Quote of the Day -- Edward Degas

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. 

-- Edward Degas

Quote of the Day -- Persian Proverb

This too shall pass. When things are bad, remember: It won’t always be this way. Take one day at a time. When things are good, remember: It won’t always be this way. Enjoy every great moment. 

-- Persian Proverb

Quote of the Day -- James Mattis

Trust is the coin of the realm for creating the harmony, speed, and teamwork to achieve success at the lowest cost.

 -- James Mattis

Quote of the Day -- Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. 

-- Charles Caleb Colton

Quote of the Day -- Zora Neale Hurston

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food. 

-- Zora Neale Hurston