Basils Cafe Quotes

#1. The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Samuel Richardson

#2. The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.

Leonard Orr

#3. Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.

John B. S. Haldane

#4. Pain with God is better than pleasure with the devil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

Woody Allen

#6. Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

Wayne Dyer

#7. Avoid working in windowless environments for good health.

Steven Magee

#8. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#9. If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

John Ciardi