Comfort is a strange thing. We spend most of our lives seeking it, but many of the greatest thinkers throughout history warn against it. They obviously never met my cat.

To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle
-Albert Einstein

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
-Confucius

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

And many modern motivational speakers assign it to a “zone” to avoid:

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
-Brian Tracy

Strangely, it had never occurred to me until this morning that the word “vintage” – which makes age sound like a good thing – is actually very specifically in reference to wine, with its earliest roots in the Latin vindemia, which means grape-gathering. With age comes wisdom, I guess. I’d have to say that anyone who thinks of getting old as a bad thing hasn’t tried to have a meaningful conversation with a teenager lately.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
-C.S. Lewis

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
-Henry David Thoreau

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.
-Satchel Paige

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
-Tom Stoppard

It’s amazing, considering that time is infinite, that we’re always running out of it. These quotes were handy reminders for me today that time is an illusion, or, as Douglas Adams said: “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so”

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
-John Wooden

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
-Leonard Bernstein

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
-Abraham Lincoln

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
-Albert Einstein

Time is the justice that examines all offenders.
-William Shakespeare

Sometimes it’s not only hard to get motivated on Monday morning, it’s hard to remember why to get motivated on Monday morning. We’ll probably make this a weekly feature…

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
-Ronald Reagan

I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy.
-Bern Williams

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America.  If I’m not there, I go to work.
-Robert Orben

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
-Confucius

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
-Irish Saying

People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.
-Bob Hope

The tragic event in Arizona yesterday really put the the topic of political rhetoric in the media’s crosshairs, so we thought we’d share some political quotes:

I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts.  After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.
-Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
-Albert Einstein

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.
-H.L. Mencken

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-Charles de Gaulle

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
-Plato

Politicians are the same all over.  They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river.
-Nikita Khrushchev

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow