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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 01/02/03 | "Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it." - Soren Kierkegaard |
| 01/03/03 | "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned." - Buddha |
| 01/04/03 | "If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another." - Epicurus |
| 01/05/03 | "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| 01/06/03 | "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - Carl Jung |
| 01/07/03 | "Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both." - John Andrew Holmes |
| 01/08/03 | "Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!" - William James |
| 01/09/03 | "To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style." - Aldous Huxley |
| 01/10/03 | "Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." - Goethe |
| 01/11/03 | "The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it." - Elbert Hubbard |
| 01/12/03 | "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| 01/13/03 | "Wild honey smells of freedom. The dust - of sunlight. The mouth of a young girl, like a violet. But gold - smells of nothing." - Anna Akhmatova |
| 01/14/03 | "It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| 01/15/03 | "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus |
| 01/16/03 | "Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them." - Goethe |
| 01/17/03 | "He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb |
| 01/18/03 | "Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness." - Jean De La Bruyere |
| 01/19/03 | "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 01/20/03 | "Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another." - Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 01/21/03 | "A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own." - H. G. Wells |
| 01/22/03 | "In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it." - Lao Tzu |
| 01/23/03 | "To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice." - Confucius |
| 01/24/03 | "If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it." - D.H. Lawrence |
| 01/25/03 | "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." - English proverb |
| 01/26/03 | "There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| 01/27/03 | "Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." - Sydney J. Harris |
| 01/28/03 | "Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate. The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%." - Douglas MacArthur |
| 01/29/03 | "Never cut what you can untie." - Joseph Joubert |
| 01/30/03 | "There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away." - Winston Churchill |
| 01/31/03 | "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan |
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