Quotes as they have appeared in issues of The First Call newsletter.
APRIL 2025
04.01.25: "We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." — John Archibald Wheeler
MARCH 2025
03.31.25: “A person really doesn’t become whole until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.” — Jim Valvano
03.28.25: "Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit." — William Penn
03.27.25: "Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret." — Benjamin Disraeli
03.26.25: "Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail." — Mary Astell
03.25.25: "A drawing is simply a line going for a walk." — Paul Klee
03.24.25: "The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." — Woodrow Wilson
03.21.25: "Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win." — Bobby Knight
03.20.25: "I don't believe in art. I believe in artists." — Marcel Duchamp
03.19.25: "Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself." — Thomas a Kempis
03.18.25: "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." — John Boyle O'Reilly
03.17.25: "Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us." — Boris Pasternak
03.14.25: "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." — John Kennedy
03.13.25: "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." — Henry Kissinger
03.12.25: "Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue." — Andy Stanley
03.11.25: "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health." — Henry David Thoreau
03.10.25: "If you want to be happy, be." — Leo Tolstoy
03.07.25: "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’Tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." — Mark Twain
03.06.25: “There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them." — Casey Stengel
03.05.25: "All life is six-to-five against." — Damon Runyon
03.04.25: "You can never plan the future by the past." — Edmund Burke
03.03.25: "Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time." — Voltaire
FEBRUARY 2025
02.28.25: "I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another." — Thomas Jefferson
02.27.25: "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion." — Martha Graham
02.26.25: "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
02.25.25: "It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory." — Blaise Pascal
02.24.25: "Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown." — Stephen Gardiner
02.21.25: "One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time." — Robert Kennedy
02.20.25: "Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure." — Meister Eckhart
02.19.25: "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
02.18.25: "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." — Winston Churchill
02.14.25: "It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment." — Andrew Wyeth
02.13.25: "The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth." — Robert Anton Wilson
02.12.25: "Treasure your relationships, not your possessions." — Anthony J. D'Ange
02.11.25: "An empty canvas is a living wonder ... far lovelier than certain pictures." — Wassily Kandinsky
02.10.25: "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." — Carl Jung
02.07.25: "There are years that ask questions and years that answer." — Zora Neale Hurston
02.06.25: "Dreams are necessary to life." — Anais Nin
02.05.25: "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." — Pablo Picasso
02.04.25: "Kites rise highest against the wind — not with it." — Winston Churchill
02.03.25: "The rule in the art world is you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both." — Ben Hecht
JANUARY 2025
01.30.25: "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." — George Washington
01.30.25: "In politics, being deceived is no excuse." — Leszek Kołakowski
01.29.25: "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." — R. Buckminster Fuller
01.28.25: "I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse." — Florence Nightingale
01.27.25: "Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
01.24.25: "Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love." — Ovid
01.23.25: "Once you label me you negate me." — Soren Kierkegaard
01.22.25: "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours." — Dag Hammarskjold
01.21.25: "You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way." — Walter Hagen
APRIL 2022
04.25.22: "All things are difficult before they are easy." — Thomas Fuller