People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (1926-2004)

Email from AJ - GPN client and spine patient

All I need is another 8 years to let me put my son into Medical school. After that I can die any time with a smile. The only thing I want my son do for me is that there will be no such sign in his future clicnic office -- "payment due before service". In our Buddist culture, a medical doctor is like a pastor of an American Church, and the job God gave to him is to reduce the physical body pain of human being. The profit of making money is just a side product of gifts or thank-you from the patients... God creates us, not money.

I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
-Konrad Lorenz, ethologist, Nobel laureate (1903-1989)

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

-Hanlon's Razor

Stolen from somone's signature file on Braintalk:

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow---what a ride!!'
- anonymous


and another favorite....

It's best not to be too moral.... you cheat yourself out of too much life!
- Ruth Gordon in "Harold and Maude"

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
-Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness.
-Emo Philips, comedian (1956- )

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
-Roger Miller, musician
(1936-1992)

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
-Rollo May, psychologist (1909-1994)