This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We cannot have jobs and opportunities if we surrender our freedom to Government control... We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society.
Control | Freedom | Government | Opportunity | Security | Society | Surrender | Wisdom | Government |
John Cudahy, fully John Clarence Cudahy
If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. And we will discover that the treasure-house of education has stood intact and unshaken in the storm. The man of cultivated life has founded his house upon a rock. You can never take away the magnificent mansion of his mind.
Education | Illusion | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Possessions | Search | Security | Will | Wisdom |
The time has come when we must hope our children and their children ad infinitum will want from life more than material success. They must have enough of that to ensure a roof, clothing, food and some recreation, but, if we are to survive for another two hundred years, we must change our way of life.
Change | Children | Enough | Hope | Life | Life | Recreation | Success | Time | Will | Wisdom |
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Hope | Hurry | Indolence | Man | Present | Will | Wisdom | World |
That person lives in hell who gets what he desires too soon. Whether he finds his happiness in wealth, power, fame or women, or in a combination of all, that happiness will be meaningless if it robs him of his desire. Heaven is a country through which we are permitted to search eagerly and with hope for what we want.
Desire | Fame | Heaven | Hell | Hope | Power | Search | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |
To make clear fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them for the fast in the emotional life of an individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of a man... They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Ends | Important | Individual | Life | Life | Man | Religion | Revelation | Wisdom |
E. M. Forster, fully Edward Morgan Forster
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is, instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity. Religious faith has the miraculous power to lift ordinary human beings to greatness in seasons of stress.
Faith | Greatness | Hope | Life | Life | Men | Power | Serenity | Strength | Wisdom |
Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
Oscar Hammerstein II, fully Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hamerstein II
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. It think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Hope | Important | Reality | Troubles | Ugly | Wisdom | World | Think |