This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
There's a lot of people who try to ride my coattails, but Wally isn't one of them.
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
Experience | Hope | Opportunity | Will | Friends | Learn |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
Business | Day | Opportunity | World | Business |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.
Appreciation | Energy | Freedom | Opportunity | World | Appreciation |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Every morning, in your first view of the day, you have the choice to say, 'Good morning, God' or 'Good God, morning.'
Energy | Opportunity |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Choose to align yourself with people who are like-minded in their search for simplified inspiration. Give those who find fault or who are confrontational a silent blessing and remove yourself from their energy as quickly as possible. Your life is simplified enormously when you don't have to defend yourself to anyone, and when you receive support rather than criticism..
Chance | Love | Opportunity |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
The more we teach achievement at the expense of inner satisfaction, the more we teach youngsters to take the easier path and to avoid a failure label. Yet, when we take just a cursory look at greatness in any human being in any profession, we are looking at people who have failed, and failed, and failed again and again, learning something new each time.
Children | Opportunity | Happiness |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
There is no stress in the world. Only people thinking stressful thoughts.
In this light the Sabbath prescription is a loving reminder to take full advantage of a condition that already exists. At rest, our souls are restored. This is the only commandment that begins with the word “remember,” as if it refers to something we already know, but have forgotten. It is good. It is whole. It is beautiful. In our hurry and worry and acquiring and working, we forget. Rest, take delight in the goodness of creation, and remember how good it is.
Choice | Important | Opportunity | Will | Loss |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
There is nothing to stop you from converting your illness to wellness.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire.
Opportunity | Obstacle |
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.
And in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
May I suggest that the deepest experience in vulnerability is to completely accept its Suchness as the ego/Ego coming into fuller relationship with the Divine. Thought forms of past, present, and future are simply too ego indulgent in the later stages of life. Variations on this theme are Masochism/Sadism and Pleasers/InyourFaceers. They are legitimate paths unless arrested by the ego too frightened to see what actually lurks under the drive to power.
Attention | Dynamic | Ego | Life | Life | Mystery | Nothing | Opportunity | People | Wholeness | Will | Loss | Think |
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.
Man | Opportunity | Training |
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
Absolute | Equality | Freedom | Genius | Life | Life | Man | Men | Opportunity | Order | Right | World |
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Mathematicians, it is often said, tend to be musical. It is less well known that problems arising from music have played an important role in the discovery of fundamental mathematical ideas. Questions about the vibrations of a piano string led to a fierce controversy that forced mathematicians to clarify their ideas about area, continuity, and the convergence of series.
Education | Knowledge | Nothing | Opportunity | Will | Trouble | Teacher |