more intersting stuff from another Larry day:

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
--Henry Boye

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
--George Orwell

A witty saying proves nothing.
--Voltaire

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch.
--William Of Orange

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
--P. J. O'Rourke

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
--Bartholomew

What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
--Mark 8:36

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
--Samuel Ullman

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
--John Burrough

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
--Henry Miller

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
--Ambrose Redmoon

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found -- in himself.
--Erich Frohm