What is your favorite quote? And why?

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~ Woody Allen

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. ~ Saint Augustine

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ~ Laurence J. Peter

If you have no democracy and you can get the people to agree not to speak up, you have bought a bargain much better than repression. ~ C A Cafolini

The superfluous are a very necessary thing. ~ Voltaire

"You can observe a lot just by watching."

"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."

Yogi Berra

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Why don't you write books people can read?"
- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. ~ Ken Venturi

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Do something stupid under control every so often. That way your ego will not feel so much competitive pressure from the ones that come for free. ~ C A Cafolini

I did something stupid. I looked for my car keys as I pulled out of my driveway-in my car. - Karen Curtis

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~ Albert Camus

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ~ Michel de Montaigne

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. ~ Michel de Montaigne