Quotes from famous folks

Recently, I found some things I had saved in a folder. They meant a great deal to me 35 years ago and after reading them, they have not lost their charm. There are many quotes that I could include but I guess these were the golden nuggets I found in a certain time of my life and now I was able to rediscover them.

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it"

"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life to which neither time nor eternity can bring dimunition- this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths!"

-Groucho Marx

"It has been the greatest lesson I have learned; if you perservere, stick with it, work at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass you'll get there."

-Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy, True Compass, 2009.





"You look back at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something."

-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974.