Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax rolled a natural one on his fortitude save today, dying at level 69 at his home in Lake Geneva.

From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/gary_gygax_dies_at_69/

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not unreal.

- George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island

"I have come here not to find answers," he'd written in his notebook that first year, "but to find a way to live in a world without any."

Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

A paraphased quote from The Daily Show:

It's better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Anecdote - Tents Decision: President Lyndon B. Johnson once sought a way to remove J. Edgar Hoover from his post as the head of the FBI. When the problems involved in such a plan proved ( Read more... )

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

Dorothy Thompson

Much of my Friends List is in a similar funk, so I brought quotes.

• Unless you make allowances for your friends' foibles, you betray your own. - Publilius Syrus
• Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.
  - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy
• We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others ( Read more... )

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck

Our souls sit close and silently within,
And their own webs from their own entrails spin;
And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such
That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

John Dryden, Marriage à la Mode