Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Life and Living]

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
~ Robert Frost - [Life and Living]

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
~ Robert Fulghum - [Life and Living]

Observation is an old man's memory.
~ Jonathan Swift - [Memory]

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
~ Booth Tarkington - [Memory]

Don't remember what you can infer.
~ Harry Tennant - [Memory]

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.
~ Lewis Thomas - [Memory]

Of what significance are the things you can forget.
~ Henry David Thoreau - [Memory]

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
~ Henry David Thoreau - [Memory]

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.
~ Jay Trachman - [Memory]