This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Though taste, though genius be to some divine excess, faint's the cold work till thou inspire the whole; what each, what all supply, may court, may charm our eye, thou, only thou, canst raise the meeting soul!
Opportunity | Tradition |
And what else is the cause of all transgression, but that man's ignorant pride will have his will preferred to the will of God.
Haste |
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death.
Evil | Good | Mercy | Mortal | Opportunity |
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Land | Opportunity |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.
Man | Opportunity |
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Freedom | Opportunity | Society | Society |
Whitney Young, fully Whitney Moore Young, Jr.
I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog.
Walter Chrysler, fully Walter Percy Chrysler
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Life | Life | Opportunity | People | Reason |
Walter Chrysler, fully Walter Percy Chrysler
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Life | Life | Opportunity | People | Reason |
Resignation - Why, why repine, my pensive friend, at pleasures slipp'd away? Some the stern Fates will never lend, and all refuse to stay. I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: in this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.
Change | Life | Life | Meaning | Opportunity | People | Search | Think |
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 |