“A bad day is when I lie in the bed
and think of things that might have been.”

~ Paul Simon

*Paul Frederic Simon

Born October 13, 1941 Newark, New Jersey

An American singer-songwriter known for his success as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair’s songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles charts, “The Sound of Silence”, “Mrs. Robinson”, and “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Besides music, Simon wrote and starred in the film One Trick Pony in 1980 and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman in 1998.

Through his solo and collaborative work, Simon has earned 13 Grammys, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the “100 People Who Shaped the World” by Time magazine.

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“Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadows.”

~ Helen Keller

*Helen Adams Keller

Born June 27, 1880 Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA
Died June 1, 1968 (aged 87) Arcan Ridge, Easton, Connecticut, USA

An American author, political activist and lecturer. A prolific author, Keller was well traveled, and was outspoken in her opposition to war. A member of the Socialist Party USA and the Wobblies, she campaigned for women’s suffrage, workers’ rights and socialism, as well as many other leftist causes.

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“Aren’t the ‘good things that come to those who wait’
just the leftovers from the people that got there first?”

~ Author Unknown

“Eagles may soar high,
but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.”

~ John Benfield

“A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.”

~ Albert Einstein

“The early bird gets the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.”

~ Author Unknown

“Dusting is a good example
of the futility of trying to put things right.
As soon as you dust,
the fact of your next dusting
has already been established.”

~ George Carlin

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight
it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

~ Mark Twain

“I do this real moron thing,
it`s called thinking, and
I`m not a very good American
because I like to form my own opinions.”

~ George Carlin

“We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“He’s turned his life around.
He used to be depressed and miserable.
Now he’s miserable and depressed.”

~ David Frost

“The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.”

~ Albert Einstein

“Honesty may be the best policy,
but it’s important to remember that apparently,
by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy”

~ George Carlin

“We don’t live in a world of reality,
we live in a world of perceptions.”

Gerald J. Simmons