This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
The more you study Buddhism, the more you should understand. You shouldn't become more confused. Recognize the truth and open up your "mine of wisdom."
Aspiration | Divinity | Dynamic | Good | Honor | Nature | Practice | Aspiration |
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity: People doing stupid things without realizing or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
Important | Right | Understand |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
No matter how flourishing the world becomes, when it reaches the height of its glory, it will become dark again. All things in the world, great and small, are pretty much the same; they all go through cycles.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night in June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.
Children | Choice | Faith | Good | Important | Man | Need | Patience | Sentiment | Time | Happiness |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
By ‘flat’ I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That’s why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move dead bodies.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.
Will |
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and... this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.