Al’s Quotes and Quips for February

• “The trouble with opportunity is that it is more recognizable going than when it is coming.”
• “Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.” (Soren Kierkegaard, quoted in The Boston Globe)
• “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” (Ernest Hemingway, quoted in The Week)
• “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” (Nelson Mandela, quoted in The Wall Street Journal)
• “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” (E. E. Cummings)
• “Life is about losing everything, gracefully.” (Mia Farrow, quoted in The Week)
• “If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.” (Lewis Carroll, quoted in the Associated Press)
• “Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quoted in The World)
• “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” (Jim Rohn, quoted in the Weekly Economic Update)
• “If we work upon marble, it will perish; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumple into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity.” (Daniel Webster in an address delivered by the in Faneuil Hall, May 22, 1852, at the request of the City Council of Boston.)
• “There is no cure for birth and death except to enjoy the interval.”  (George Santayana, quoted in The Week)
• “I have found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” (Abraham Lincoln, quoted in The Wall Street Journal)