I love good quotes. It's like finding a a novel compressed into a sentence. Periodically, I share some of my favorite quotes that I have collected. Here's my latest batch of offerings:

“Today I broke my personal record for consecutive days alive.” - Anon

“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” ― Alfred A. Montapert

"If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe"? - Carl Sagan

“To understand everything is to forgive everything.” ― Buddha

“You can do so much in 10 minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.”
-Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of the furniture brand IKEA

"If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline." - Richard Branson

“Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.” ― Albert Einstein

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” ― Mark Twain

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” ― Edward R. Murrow

A good quote is a novel in a sentence or two. That's good payback for impatient people like me, who struggle to sit still long enough to read entire novels. I make a point of collecting engaging quotes wherever I read them, though, and I've published more than 100 groups of quotes over the years here at DI. This group includes quotes originated by two of my friends, Andy Wahl and Dale Irwin.  Here's the latest batch from my collection: “If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.” ― Carl Sagan

When you add it all up, it’s not uncommon for a single child to cost a normal, middle-class family something like $1.1 million, from birth through the undergrad years. To get some perspective, the median price of a home in 2008 was $180,100. It is commonly said that buying a house is the biggest purchase most Americans will ever make. Having a baby is like buying six houses. Except that they don’t increase in value, you can’t sell them and after 16 years they’ll probably say they hate you.

Jonathan Last - Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203917304574413792994350108 “Do the next right thing.” - Dale Irwin (Kansas City Attorney).

Psychological discernment is not as difficult as one might think: Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear soon become convinced that mortals cannot keep a secret. He whose lips are sealed talks with his fingertips; disclosure oozes out of his every pore.

- Sigmund Freud "Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria," (1901-5), VI, 148 "Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." - ZEN PROVERB

You can look the other way once, and it's no big deal, except it makes it easier for you to compromise the next time, and pretty soon that's all you're doing; compromising, because that's the way you think things are done. You know those guys I busted? You think they were the bad guys? Because they weren't, they weren't bad guys. They were just like you and me. Except they compromised... Once.

Jack Bauer - From the opening episode of "24," Season One. “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.” ― Nikola Tesla "I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you." - Paulo Coelho "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." Henry David Thoreau "Adventure is just bad planning." Roald Amundsen

Perhaps it is because I've been in the throes of romance for the past 10 months, a relationship that keeps getting better and better, but I've been struggling to find words to describe or express my feelings to my beloved. That is why I set out to find some well-crafted quotes on romance, quotes new to me. I found some that are most excellent: “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” ― Nicholas Sparks “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays “When love is not madness it is not love.” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca “Every great love starts with a great story...” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook [more . . . ]