"To me, there are three things we should all do every day. Number 1 is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number 2 is think. You should spend some time in thought. Number 3 is you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think and you cry, that's a full day, that's a heck of a day." - Jim Valvano, 1946-93

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." - The Bill of Rights

"Aita Peatea:" "There will be another day tomorrow just like today." - Disney's Polynesian Resort

"If you get confused, listen to the music play." - Robert Hunter

"Lo bailado, no te lo quitan (What is danced can't be taken away)" - Cuban saying

"Now if youre feelin kinda low bout the dues you've been paying, future's coming much too slow/And you wanna run but somehow you just keep on stayin', can't decide on which way to go/Yeah, yeah, yeah/I understand about indecision, but I dont care if I get behind/People livin' in competition, all I want is to have my peace of mind. " - Tom Scholz

"When you least expect it, expect it." - Allen Funt

"'There are going to be times,' says Kesey, 'when we can't wait for somebody. Now you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place--then it won't make a damn.' And nobody had to have it spelled out for them. Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: `You're either on the bus...or off the bus." - from "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe

"May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping." - Irish saying

"A friend is like the sunlight/We let into our homes./He certainly is not the kind/Who'd send you crappy poems." - Tim Bland

"I made my first mental maps of the world...on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee. Because everything about that lake was imprinted on my mind when it held so little and was so eager for information, it will be my lake as long as I live. I have no wish to visit it, for I have it right here." - Kurt Vonnegut

"You can just go into a record store and pick a century, pick a country, pick anything, and dig it, make it a part of you, add it to the stuff you carry around, and see that it's all music." - Jerry Garcia

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only what you are expecting to give - which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving." - Katharine Hepburn

"I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me. I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me. 'Cause they hold on tight in the bathtub and they stick on bended knees, I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me." - written by Barry Manilow, sung by me approximately 86,000 times during 1975-76

"You get a godd@mn job before sundown, or we're shipping you off to military school with the godd@mn Finkelstein-sh1t kid! Son of a bitch!" - Strother Martin, in "Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke," played out of many Culver window speakers

"I never want to know a day that's under sixty degrees, I'd rather have it eighty, ninety, one hundred degrees! Oh, some like it hot, but I like it REALLY hot!" - Heat Miser

"This looks like the end of the story; but it isn't." - Beatrix Potter, "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"

"Give the lady what she wants." - Marshall Field

"Mrrrow-wow." Bella T. Manx, 1992-2005

"Be alert. The world needs more lerts." - bumper sticker

"There will be another." - Becky