michelle lee

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. ~Will Rogers



Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ~Albert Schweitzer



Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote



Several excuses are always less convincing than one. ~Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point



Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects



Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination. ~Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999



Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. ~Charlie Diekatze



You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you. ~Astrid Alauda



Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw



As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. ~Jack Handey



Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th. ~Author Unknown



Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather



No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. ~Tommy Lasorda



Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~Ernest Gaines



Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov



Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter