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It’s mercy, compassion, and forgivenes I lack, not rationality. ~ From the movie Kill BillIf your vision doesn’t cost you anything, it’s a daydream. ~ John Maxwell

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. ~ George Washington

You can’t be liberated in your thinking if you’re conservative in your approach. ~ Monty Roberts

A teacher does not have the right to put a cap on the aspirations of his students, no matter how unreal those aspirations might seem. ~ Monty Roberts

…I am in the presence of greatness. I had better do my job with patience, diligence, and competence. ~ Monty Roberts

Just remember, in choosing, that we often resist what we most need. ~ Julia Cameron

The history of human intelligence can be seen as the brain’s search for ways of communicating effectively with itself. ~ Tony Buzan

Lying is a social lubricant

The next time someone asks, ‘How are you?’ answer, ‘How would I know?’

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ~ James Thurber

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. ~ Will Rogers

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ~ Mark Twain

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s. ~ Mark Twain

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ~ Katharine Hepburn

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It’s what everything else isn’t. ~ Theodore Roethke

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ~ Allen Ginsberg

Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance. ~ Bruce Schneier

These may not be the peaks of the mounts of wisdom, but I think you can see them from here…. If this peek at these pinnacles, such as they are, has piqued your interest the previous parts of this series are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. (If you’re keeping track, there are 216 quotes in rotation now.)

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