QOTD - Dave Barry

“If God Had Wanted Us to Be Concise, He Wouldn't Have Given Us So Many Fonts.” – Dave Barry, Dave Barry in Cyberspace (1996) 

QOTD - Ransom Riggs

“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing them becomes too high.” – Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

QOTD - C. S. Lewis

“You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C. S. Lewis

QOTD - Harry Behn

 “To this day, color is an enormous delight to me. It means experience, adventure of all kinds.” – Harry Behn, "Color", Chrysalis: Concerning Children and Poetry (1968)

QOTD - Muriel Strode

“I may be lost in the underground of life, but I will trust my soul to know the passages.” – Muriel Strode, My Little Book of Life (1912)

QOTD - Carl Jung

 “Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.” – Carl Jung

QOTD - Bernard Baruch

 “To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am!” – Bernard Baruch

QOTD - Anonymous

 “Don’t argue with a fool, or the listener will say there is a pair of you.” – Anonymous, Cincinnati Breakfast Table

QOTD - James Watson

“Never be the brightest person in the room; then you can’t learn anything.” – James Watson 

QOTD - John Powell

“Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.” – John Powell, Happiness Is an Inside Job (1989) 

QOTD - Wilma Rudolph

“Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” – Wilma Rudolph 

QOTD - Maggie L. Walker

“There is no such thing as standing still: you must go up or down: you must increase or diminish: you must grow or decay: you must spread out or shrink up – you can’t stand still.” – Maggie L. Walker 

QOTD - Anonymous

“Do your dreams for the future get put off year after year? Let us show you our exciting business you run from your home to give you the income to make these dreams a reality. The future belongs to those who have the courage to believe in the beauty of their dreams.” 

    – from a Help Wanted ad in The Surrey (British Columbia) Leader, March 15, 1978

QOTD - Rollo May

“Freedom is thus not the opposite to determinism. Freedom is the individual’s capacity to know that he is the determined one, to pause between stimulus and response and thus to throw his weight, however slight it may be, on the side of one particular response among several possible ones.” – Rollo May, Behavioral Science and Guidance: Proposals and Perspectives (1963)

QOTD - Anonymous

 “Half the game of getting ahead is getting started.” – Anonymous

QOTD - Mignon McLaughlin

 “Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook (1963)

QOTD - William Ralph Inge

There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good”; the other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.” – William Ralph Inge, More Lay Thoughts of a Dean by William Ralph Inge (1931)

QOTD - Robertson Davies

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost (1951) 

QOTD - Andrew Carnegie

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is all wrong. I tell you “put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.” – Andrew Carnegie, The Empire of Business by Andrew Carnegie, The Road to Business Success: A Talk to Young Men (1902)

QOTD - Anonymous

“Good Judgment depends mostly on experience and experience usually comes from poor judgment.” – Anonymous 

QOTD - Isaac Asimov

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)

QOTD - George Bernard Shaw

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

QOTD - Rachel Joyce

“The sky and the sun are always there. It’s the clouds that come and go.” – Rachel Joyce

QOTD - The Rainbow Connection by Jim Henson

“Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side
Rainbow's are visions
But only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we've been told and some Choose to believe it
But I know they're wrong wait and see
Someday we'll find it
The Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me”
     –  Kermit the Frog, The Rainbow Connection by Jim Henson, from The Muppet Movie (1979)

QOTD - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

QOTD - Louis L'Amour

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” – Louis L’Amour

QOTD - Harvey MacKay

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.” – Harvey MacKay

QOTD - Kurt Vonnegut

 “The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow.” – Kurt Vonnegut