Favorite Quotes

There is a lid for every pot.
--A lot of grandmothers

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
--Jim Carrey

Be yourself. Everyone is already taken.
--Oscar Wilde

Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.
--Oscar Wilde

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
--T.S. Eliot

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
--Mark Twain

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
--Mark Twain

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion themselves.
--Buddha (563 - 483 BC)

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. 
― Elbert Hubbard

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
--Mother Teresa

Luck Favors the Prepared
--Edna Mode in the movie The Incredibles or Louis Pasteur

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. 
--the Dalai Lama

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
--Malachy McCourt

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
--Rita Mae Brown

If you love somebody, if you love someone, 
If you love somebody, if you love someone set them free.
(Free, free, set them free.)
Set them free.
(Free, free, set them free.)
Set them fee.
(Free, free, set them free.)
Set them free.
(Free, free, set them free.)
--Sting

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. 
--Maya Angelou

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.
--Robert Zimmerman

All my life, I have carefully studied normal people. All so I could pretend to be one.
--Bill Thomas

Respect yourself, your time and your feelings or no one else will.
--Bill Thomas

Rather than lament the father you didn't have, just be the dad you should have had.
--Bill Thomas

Smart Ass' Brush with Fame

I was taking a nap on a Saturday afternoon around 1990. The phone rang. I didn't have caller ID and didn't want to miss out on anything fun. I answered, and the caller said, "Is Bill Thomas available?" I groggily replied, "This is he." She said, "Do you know anyone named Maya?" I sarcastically replied, "Maya Angelou". To which she responded, "Oh, is this the fashion designer?" I realized by her positive reaction and unmistakable voice that I was actually speaking to Maya Angelou. I apologetically said, "No, this isn't that Bill Thomas." It turns out there was an Oscar-winning costume designer named Bill Thomas who she must have been looking for. #smartassbrushwithfame