This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The accumulation of good work is joyful.
Compassion | Life | Life | Service | Truth |
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Truth |
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
Glory | Truth | Understand |
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Correctness | Evidence | Truth | Will |
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Compassion | Life | Life | Service | Truth |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
The only way we can influence people is to set a good example for them and win their respect for our integrity and values.
Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
I'm actually not against drilling. What I'm against is making that the center of our focus because we are on the eve of a new revolution, the energy technology revolution. It would be, Tom, as if on the eve of the IT revolution, the revolution of PCs and the internet, someone was up there standing and demanding, "IBM Selectric typewriters, IBM Selectric typewriters." That's what "drill, drill, drill" is the equivalent of today.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Philosophy | Truth | Will |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
You can't bet your whole life on some destination. You've got to make the journey work too. And that is why I leave you with some wit and wisdom attributed to Mark Twain: Always work like you don't need the money. Always fall in love like you've never been hurt. Always dance like nobody is watching. And always -- always -- live like it's heaven on earth.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name...We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project.
Truth |