Here are some more of my favorite quotes. I gather these from many sources. I am very much a gatherer, almost a plagiarizer, except that I admit that I gather them: "Religion is to spirituality what porn is to sex." -Roger Ebert "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky ‎"A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies." -Martin Luther King "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." —Wilson Mizner "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too." -Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972) "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats (Poet, 1865-1939). ‎"Obama isn't a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus." - John Fugelsang. "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." – Unknown "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand," he tells his children. "It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." - Atticus Finch, in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." —Daniel J. Boorstin "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." —Barry LePatner "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." —Abraham Lincoln "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur." (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.) —Unknown Author

Every so often, I dig into my collection of quotes. I pick them up in a wide variety of places. I hope that some of these are new for you: It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. —Harry Truman A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. —Martin H. Fischer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) Adventure is just bad planning. - Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928) Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ~David Dunham "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train." - Howard Zinn Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off. - Ellen DeGeneres The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. - Jules Renard (1864 - 1910) [More . . . ]

I've really been stretched this weekend. One big distraction is upgrading the family's main computer from Windows XP to Windows 7. The new product is well-rated, but the upgrade can take many (as in more than 12) hours. I'm working on many ideas, but I haven't had a chance to write them up yet. Therefore, I will turn once again to the terrific quote collection of on of our readers, Mike Baker: "Do not save your loving speeches, For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead." Anna Cummins "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "He who is greedy is always in want." ~ Horace "The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference." ~ British historian Ian Kershaw "The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear—fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety." ~ H. L. Mencken, American journalist and humorist (1880-1956) "With numbing regularity good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe. Men who are in everyday life responsible and decent were seduced by the trappings of authority, by the control of their perceptions, and by the uncritical acceptance of the experimenter's definition of the situation, into performing harsh acts. A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority." ~ Stanley Milgram , 1965 "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge." ~Daniel Boorstin "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." ~ Galileo Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642) "Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new. ~ Galileo [More . . . ]