This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Liz Smith, formally Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, aka The Grand Dame of Dish
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
We live by Admiration, Hope and Love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend.
Admiration | Dignity | Hope | Love |
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Achievement | Confidence | Faith | Hope | Nothing | Optimism |
We believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guild or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality.
Beauty | Compassion | Despair | Dogma | Faith | Fear | Hope | Ignorance | Joy | Learning | Love | Optimism | Pessimism | Reason | Selfishness | Sin | Truth | Beauty |
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
We should each ask ourselves: what place does ethics have in my daily life? In thinking about this question, ask yourself: what do I think of as a good life, in the fullest sense of that term? This is an ultimate question. To ask it is to ask: what kind of a life do I truly admire, and what kind of life do I hope to be able to look back on, when I am older and reflect on how I have lived? Will it be enough to say: "It was fun"?
Enough | Ethics | Fun | Good | Hope | Life | Life | Question | Sense | Thinking | Will | Think |
We are by nature thinking beings, and if we cannot escape anxiety about the inherent structure of our thought processes, how can we hope to creative purposive ideals that are congruent with reality instead of deflecting us from it?
Anxiety | Anxiety | Hope | Ideals | Nature | Reality | Thinking | Thought | Thought |
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
Hope |