In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

                               —Paul Harvey

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything … and just sit still and watch.      

                          —Lauren Hutton

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.     —Albert Einstein

If you can’t solve it, it’s not a problem — it’s reality.

                     —Barbara Colorose

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.  —Dr Seuss

If you see a whole thing — it seems it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives... But close up a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

                     —Ursula K. LeGuin

The optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

           —J. Robert Oppenheimer

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

                          —Warren Bennis

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

                        —James Michener

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

             —Sir Winston Churchill

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.      

              —George Bernard Shaw

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have “arrived” believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.                                       

                                —Dale Turner

Let us look at our own faults, and not other people’s. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.

         —Saint Theresa of Lisieux

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.                       

                           —Aldous Huxley