Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. - Decimus Magnus Ausonius

The only thing that's certain is change itself. - Anon.

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated! I should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity, so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. - Henry David Thoreau

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.  - Francis Bacon

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. - William Faulkner

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

Gott gibt die Nüsse, aber Er knackt sie nicht auf. (God gives [us] the nuts, but he won't crack them [for us]) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself. - Galileo

I am superficial in the deepest sense. - Andy Warhol

If you do get married, get a prenup.  It's not about money at all.  It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other. - Alec Baldwin as quoted in Lloyd Grove's Lowdown in the New York Daily News on April 6, 2006

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you. - Richard Nixon

No man is a failure who has friends. - Clarence, The Guardian Angel in Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life

Life without wine is like the sky without stars. - Anon.

Kharma is a boomerang. - Anon.

It isn't so astonishing, the things I can remember, as it is the things I can remember that aren't so. - Mark Twain

A man who cannot seduce men, cannot save them either. - Soren Kierkegaard

You are as interesting as you are interested in the things around you. - Anon.