Treatzone Quote of the Month - 2007
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
—Carl Sagan
"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion,
and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the
every-day commonplaces of my business."
—Harry Houdini
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."
—Emily Dickinson
"Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."
—Sydney Smith
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
—Emily Dickinson
on receiving news of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:
"His death will incite a new wave of revenge. George Bush and al-Zarqawi are two men who believe in revenge," he said. "It just doesn't do any good. It just continues an endless cycle of one death after another, after another."
—Michael Berg, (pacifist and father of U.S. contractor Nicholas Berg, believed to have been beheaded on video in Iraq by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi)
"Think 'simple' as my old master used to say, meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
—Frank Lloyd Wright
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
—George Bernard Shaw
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues."
—William Shakespeare
"I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all."
—Ogden Nashe
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the litte things are infinitely the most important."
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green."
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
