This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates between happiness and sorrow, a good deed and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.
Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love.
William Bolitho, pen name for Charles William Ryall
The highest part of the art of life is the expectation of miracles.
Art | Character | Expectation | Life | Life | Miracles | Art | Expectation |
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.
Character | Danger | Distrust | Fear | Man | Mother | Need | Security | Sense | Temptation |
Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
Character | Love | Personality | Will |
Frank Borman, fully Frank Frederick Borman, II
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
We believe easily what we fear or what we desire.
Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.