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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 10/02/03 | "Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks ever in the most unlikely swim." - Ovid |
| 10/03/03 | "Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli |
| 10/04/03 | "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller |
| 10/05/03 | "The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration." - Ernest Newman |
| 10/06/03 | "Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore." - Wallace Stevens |
| 10/07/03 | "No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare |
| 10/08/03 | "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form." - Andre Maurois |
| 10/09/03 | "Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it." - Alfred Hitchcock |
| 10/10/03 | "If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week." - Charles Darwin |
| 10/11/03 | "Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver |
| 10/12/03 | "We turn, not older with years, but newer every day." - Emily Dickinson |
| 10/13/03 | "No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| 10/14/03 | "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it." - Woodrow Wilson |
| 10/15/03 | "The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself." - Lao Tzu |
| 10/16/03 | "A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." - Robert Frost |
| 10/17/03 | "The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being." - Immanuel Kant |
| 10/18/03 | "What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" - Thomas Merton |
| 10/19/03 | "Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 10/20/03 | "A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong." Thomas Szasz |
| 10/21/03 | "You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 10/22/03 | "I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Tennyson |
| 10/23/03 | "We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them." - Francois Duc Ee La Rochefoucauld |
| 10/24/03 | "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh |
| 10/25/03 | "The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein |
| 10/26/03 | "To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." - William Blake |
| 10/27/03 | "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw |
| 10/28/03 | "The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves a wise man." - Buddha |
| 10/29/03 | "People change and forget to tell each other." - Lillian Hellman |
| 10/30/03 | "Nothing is so galling to a people, not broken in from the birth, as a paternal or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear." - Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay |
| 10/31/03 | "Television was supposed to be a national park. [Instead] it has become a money machine…. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies." - Fred W Friendly |
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