"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca

"The medicine increases the disease." - Virgil

"Democracy passes into despotism." - Plato

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

"I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within."

"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault." - Cicero

"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason." - Kant

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope." - Aristotle

"Je pense, donc je suis." - Descartes

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - Confucius

"A picture is a fact." - Wittgenstein

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

"Nature abhors annihilation." - Cicero

"Their rage supplies them with weapons." - Virgil

"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."

"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one." - W

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Cicero

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." - Wittgenstein

"Our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." - Da Vinci

"Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages." - Henry Ford

"What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?" - Tony Robbins

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion." - Jim Rohn

"Dont wait. The time will never be just right." - Napoleon Hill

"Money wont create success, the freedom to make it will." - Mandela

"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light." - E. Nightingale

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - W. Churchill

"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true." - Caesar

"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value." - Jim Rohn

"Dont be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs." - Dale Carnegie

"We get paid for bringing value to the market place." - Jim Rohn

"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill

"I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work." - Thomas Edison

"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back." - Dale Ca

"Every minute should be enjoyed and savored." - E. Nightingale

"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one." - John Maxwell

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination." - E. Nightingale

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active." - Da Vinci

"The morality of compromise sounds contradictory." - Andrew Carnegie

"'Solvitur ambulando,' St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around." - Gregory McNamee

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. " - Plato

"Charity sees the need, not the cause." - German proverb

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." - Unknown

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side." - Scott Westerfeld

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." - Emily Kimbrough

"How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms." - Aristotle

"I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." - Larry Bird

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." - Harold Geneen

"Out of difficulties grow miracles." - Jean de la Bruyere

"Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident." - Chuck Knox

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh

"They can do all because they think they can." - Virgil

"They that have lived a single day have lived an age." - Jean de la Bruyere

"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson

"It is what we do, rather than what we feel, or say we do that reflects who and what we truly are." - Leo Buscaglia

"Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it." - Brian Tracy

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way." - Satchel Paige

"Character is a long-standing habit." - Plutarch

"The dread of criticism is the death of genius." - William Gilmore Simms

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others." - Feodor Dostoyevsky

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought." - Lin Yutang

"If you aren't going all the way; why go at all?" - Joe Namath

"If you want work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time." - Elbert Hubbard

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith." - Plato

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." - Carl Sagan

"To believe that the world is only as you think it is, is stupid." - Carlos Castaneda

"My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset." - Jack Nicklaus

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at." - Henry David Thoreau

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake

"What force is more potent than love?" - Igor Stravinsky

"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." - Benjamin Franklin

"Every person you meet-and everything you do in life-is an opportunity to learn something." - Tom Clancy

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." - Grace Hopper

"In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality." - Mary McCarthy

"When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt." - Picabo Street

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver

"Good things come to those who work." - Wilt Chamberlain

"He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure." - Thomas a Kempis

"Concentration is why some athletes are better than others." - Edwin Moses

"The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one." - Toni Morrison

"If you want to soar with the eagles, you can't hoot with the owls." - Steve Lavin

"The true art of memory is the art of attention." - Samuel Johnson

"The course of true love never did run smooth." - William Shakespeare

"He that does good for good's sake, seeks neither praise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end." - William Penn

"Change not the mass but change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all." - Vachel Lindsay

"There is a time for everything. And a season for every activity under heaven." - (Ecclesiastes 3:1) The Holy Bible

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." - Adlai E. Stevenson

"Justice delayed is democracy denied." - Robert F. Kennedy

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit." - George Allen

"No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind." - Napoleon Hill

"For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards." - Baltasar Gracian

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth." - Aesop

"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade." - Dale Carnegie

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln

"Without some goal and some effort to reach it no man can live." - Feodor Dostoyevsky

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life." - William Blake

"Anyone can steer a ship when the sea is calm." - Harvey Mackay

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds." - Will Rogers

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."

"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed." - Cicero

"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."

"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." - Cicero

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." - Napoleon Hill

"If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up." - Les Brown

"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward." - Thomas Ed

"Everything in life is luck." - Donald Trump

"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me." - Seneca

"Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all." - Virgil

"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."

"Man is by nature a political animal." - Aristotle

"For men are not equal: thus speaks justice." - Nietzsche

"There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact." - Leibniz

"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?" - Virgil

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." - Seneca

"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."

"Nature does nothing in vain." - Aristotle

"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator." - Maria Montessori

"A mans sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results." - John Gray

"History is more or less bunk." - Henry Ford

"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards." - Sun Tzu

"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all." - Mandela

"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself." - Napoleon Hill

"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something." - Dale Carne

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn

"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare." - Dale Carnegie

"What is to give light must endure burning." - Viktor Frankl

"Water is the driving force of all nature." - Da Vinci

"If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up." - Les Brown

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits." - Henry Ford

"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." - Brian Tracy

"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so." - Dale Carnegie

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution." - Thomas Edison

"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it." - Les Brown

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." - W. Churchill

"All war is based on deception." - Sun Tzu

"Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them." - David Allen

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing." - Will Rogers

"If things go wrong, don't go with them." - Roger Babson

"Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird." - Paul Eldridge

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses

"Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves." - Italian proverb

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." - H. Jackson Browne

"Every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." - Walt Whitman

"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison

"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." - French Proverb

"One joy scatters a hundred griefs." - Chinese Proverb

"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake." - William James

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Thomas Aquinis

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." - E. E. Cummings

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth

"Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good." - Ben Hogan

"We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves." - Rene Descartes

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." - William Penn

"The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time." - Henrik Ibsen

"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can." - Henry Ford

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." - Mother Teresa

"I'm not the kind of a guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in." - William Sayoran

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie." - Michel de Montaigne

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it." - John Ruskin

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best." - W. Somerset Maugham

"All miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal

"As he brews, so shall he drink." - Ben Jonson

"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep." - Denis Waitley

"Order is power." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can." - Henry Ford

"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures." - Horace Greeley

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." - Ethel Barrymore

"It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts." - Ella Fitzgerald

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." - Phillips Brooks

"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile." - Bertrand Russell

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." - Earl Nightengale

"I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine." - Kurt Vonnegut

"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." - Virginia Burden

"It always seems impossible until its done." - Mandela

"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man." - Paulo Coelho

"We cant solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

"If you are going through hell, keep going." - W. Churchill

"History is written by the victors." - W. Churchill

"Men willingly believe what they wish." - Caesar

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." - Saint Augustine

"If we don't know life, how can we know death?" - Confucius

"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it." - Seneca

"Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands." - Kant

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth." - Jewish proverb

"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important." - Janet Lane

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." - Chinese proverb

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams "We need not destroy the past. It is gone." - John Cage

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

"Through your heart over the fence and the rest will follow." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." - T.S. Eliot

"I accept the universe!" - Margaret Fuller

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies." - William Hazlitt

"The future influences the present just as much as the past." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino

"From what we get in life, we make a living. From what we give, we make a life." - Arthur Ashe

"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"Calculation never made a hero." - John Henry Newman

"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford

"Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are." - Jose Ortega y Gasset

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa

"No man can serve two masters." - (Matthew 6:24) The Holy Bible

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality." - Carl Sagan

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." - George S. Patton

"Courage is the first of the virtues, because it makes all others possible." - Aristotle

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." - George Eliot

"Life is half spent before one knows what life is." - French Proverb

"You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky

"Enjoy what you can, endure what you must." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley

"You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training." - Seth Godin

"A man without a smiling face must not open a shop." - Chinese Proverb

"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly." - Aristotle

"There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand." - Charles F. Kettering

"There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything." - Vince Lombardi

"Ah friend, let us be true to one another!" - Matthew Arnold

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." - Alfred Tennyson

"Nothing noble is done without risk." - Andre Gide

"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." - Lady Bird Johnson

"You can take any amount of pain as long as you know it's going to end." - Harvey Mackay

"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." - Lao Tzu

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action." - Brendan Francis Behan

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke

"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile." - Bertrand Russell

"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." - Abigail Adams

"You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you." - Heraclitus

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other." - Benjamin Franklin

"You will never win if you never begin." - Robert Schuller

"It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant." - Henry Ward Beecher

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do. Nothing else." - Andre Malraux

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision." - Stevie Wonder

"One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention." - Jim Rohn

"The guy who complains about the way the ball bounces is usually the guy who dropped it." - Lou Holtz

"By mutual confidence and mutual aid, great deeds are done, and great discoveries made." - Homer

"He who conquers others is strong: he who conquers himself is mighty." - Lao Tzu

"Make measurable progress in reasonable time." - Jim Rohn

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else." - E. Nightingale

"The blind quest for cash is a fools errand." - Tim Ferriss

"What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" - Robert Schuller

"I never did a days work in my life. It was all fun." - Thomas Edison

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Da Vinci

"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it." - W. Churchill

"No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected." - Caesar

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - W. Churchill

"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality." - Napoleon Hill

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." - John Maxwell

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." - W. Churchill

"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate." - Donald Trump

"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your." - Les Brown

"We all have possibilities we dont know about. We can do things we dont even dream we can do." - Dale Carnegie

"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind." - E. Nightingale

"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement." - Mandela

"Success is steady progress toward ones personal goals." - Jim Rohn

"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch." - Jim Rohn

"Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital." - Andrew Carnegie

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering." - Paulo

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing." - Marcus Aurelius

"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal." - William James

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook." - William James

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

"As a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."

"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."

"To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight." - Montesquieu

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue." - Confucius

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is." - Cicero

"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit." - Saint

"Democracy passes into despotism." - Plato

"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."

"Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt." - Saint Augustine

"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."

"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."

"Peace is a natural effect of trade. " - Montesquieu

"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious." - Marcus Aureliu

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe

"Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks." - Henri Bergson

"If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed." - E. Jean Carroll

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." - G.K. Chesterton

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." - Samuel Johnson

"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"It?s not the first mistake; it?s the cover-up that gets you in trouble." - Michel de Montaigne

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

"A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"You learn to love by loving-by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done." - Aldous Huxley

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Allen

"He who stops being better stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." - Colin Wilson

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning." - Benjamin Franklin

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only thing we ever have is what we give away." - Emily Dickinson

"We did not all come over on the same ship, but we were all in the same boat." - Bernard Baruch

"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"Did you ever observe to whom accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you." - Arnold Palmer

"Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility." - Thomas Jefferson

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody." - Benjamin Franklin

"You will never find time for anything. You must make it." - Charles Buxton

"Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it." - Malcolm X

"The first and best victory is to conquer self." - Plato

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see." - Theodore Roethke

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin

"It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves." - Marshall Goldsmith

"Say not always what you know, but always know what you say." - Claudius

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." - George S. Patton

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"To know a person's nature, begin by looking at what kind of people he or she spends time with." - Chin-Ning Chu

"It is in our lives, not from our words, that our religion must be judged." - Thomas Jefferson

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Dean Acheson

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." - George S. Patton

"I have found it of enormous value when I can permit myself to understand the other person." - Carl Rogers

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy." - Robert Lewis Stevenson

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten B

"Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy." - Gordon Allport

"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Anthony Robbins

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." - Frank Crane

"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it." - Horace Mann

"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses

"Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekov

"An idea is salvation by imagination." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." - Maya Angelou

"Never take moderation to extremes." - Oscar Wilde

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao Tzu

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." - Benjamin Franklin

"Don't find fault. Find a remedy." - Henry Ford

Communication occurs in the silence .... Use the pause.

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight." - Leo Rosten

"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times." - Dean Smith

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." - Joseph Joubert

"It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive." - Bruce Springsteen

"Trust one who has tried." - Virgil

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - Colin L. Powell

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." - Aristotle

Your audience doesn't care about your message until you give them a reason to listen. Your listener cares abt himself. What's in it for him?

"Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." - Aristotle

"A leader has to show the face his team needs to see." - Mike Krzyzewski

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." - Robert Schuller

"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown." - Claude Bernard

"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain

"Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto." - Harvey Mackay

"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." - Lady Bird Johnson

"To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others." - Buddha

"Trouble creates a capacity to handle it." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We win or we lose together." - Mike Krzyzewski

"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love." - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy

"It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned." - Henry Ward Beecher

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?" - George Eliot

"Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers." - Virgil

"It seems that laughter needs an echo." - Henri Bergson

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." - Plato

"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds." - Socrates

"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else." - Epictetus

"All wealth is the product of labor." - John Locke

"Before all else, be armed." - Machiavelli

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world." - Socrates

"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice." - Confucius

"The severity of the laws prevents their execution." - Montesquieu

"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." - Aristotle

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." - Cicero

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

"A man of courage is also full of faith." - Cicero

"A fault is fostered by concealment." - Virgil

"Everything in the world is purchased by labor." - David Hume

"A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary." - Seneca

"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws." - Montesquieu

"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization." - Fried

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

"Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!" - E. Nightingale

"The first thing the secretary types is the boss." - Donald Trump

"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality." - David Allen

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." - Napoleon Hill

"There is no substitute for hard work." - Thomas Edison

"With realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world." - Dal

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." - W. Churchill

"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it." - Jim Rohn

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." - Da Vinci

"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Da Vinci

"Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness?" - Tim Ferriss

" Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit "- Napo

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."- Napoleon Hill

" Whats going on in the inside shows on the outside."- E. Nightingale

" We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn."- E. Nightingale

" Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to."- David Allen

" See yourself doing the things youll be doing when youve reached your goal."- E. Nightingale

" If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you."- Jim Rohn

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece. "-Da Vinci

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." Soren Kierkegaard

"People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it." - John Steinbeck

"There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything." - Vince Lombardi

"Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player." - Unknown

"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!" - Miguel de Cervantes

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Allen

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice." - William Jennings Bryan

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute." - William Lyon Phelps

"How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away." - Bill Copeland

"The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason." - Blaise Pascal

"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky." - Mason Cooley

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." - Ernest Hemingway

"I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less." - Thomas Carlyle

"All is flux, nothing stays still." - Heraclitus

"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary." - Sally Ride

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli

"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity." - Arthur Vandenburg

"He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions." - Samuel Johnson

"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." - David Starr Jordan

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." - Edward de Bono

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." - Saint Ambrose

"Keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." - George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha

"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar." - William Faulkner

"Behind every able man are always other able men." - Chinese Proverb

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another." - Jean Paul Richter

"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are." - Miguel de Cervantes

"Out of difficulties grow miracles." - Jean de la Bruyere

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - George S. Patton

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." - Henry Moore

"Humankind cannot stand very much reality." - T.S. Eliot

"We win or we lose together." - Mike Krzyzewski

"The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one." - Francis Bacon

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way." - Satchel Paige

"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience." - Thomas Edison

"The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself." - Aristotle

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards." - Baltasar Gracian

"Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today." - Benjamin Franklin

"Character is to man what carbon is to steel." - Napoleon Hill

"If you aren't going all the way; why go at all?" - Joe Namath

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of them." - Linus Pauling

"Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world." - William James

"The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand and nobody cares about its color." - Daniel James

"Don't worry about being better than someone else, but never cease trying to be the best you can become." - John Wooden

"There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example." - John Wooden

"Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else." - Brian Tracy

"Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse." - African Proverb

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit." - Kahlil Gibran

"You never know how far you can go until you can risk going too far." - T.S. Eliot

"Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it." - Malcolm X

"When you say you'll do it, do it. Don't give your word unless you intend to keep it." - John Wooden

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"In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality." - Mary McCarthy

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." - Chinese Proverb

"Every person you meet-and everything you do in life-is an opportunity to learn something." - Tom Clancy

"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided." - Alexander Hamilton

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan

"The past does not equal the future." - Anthony Robbins

"Ask advice from everyone, but act with your own mind." - Jewish Proverb

"Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does." - Bill Nye

"Things are not always what they seem." - Phaedrus

"A promise made is a debt unpaid." - Robert W. Service

"We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot." - Abraham Lincoln

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." - Bertrand Russell

"What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call." - Liz Carpenter

"If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning." - Griff Niblack

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese

"Leadership is action, not position." - Donald H. McGannon

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable." - Wendy Wasserstein

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die." - G.K. Chesterton

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it." - Dalai Lama

"We must love one another or die." - W. H. Auden

"It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant." - Henry Ward Beecher

"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar Bradley

"The only thing we ever have is what we give away." - Emily Dickinson

"Hope is a waking dream." - Aristotle

"The simplest explanation is not always the right one, truth is very often not simple." - Sigmund Freud

"Everyone stamps his own value on himself." - Friedrich von Schiller

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." - Aesop

"I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well." - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

"If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"One of the rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can." - Josh Billings

"A gentle answer turns away wrath." - (Proverbs 15:1) The Holy Bible

"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." - Aristotle

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." - Lao Tzu

"I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious." - Hank Aaron

"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement." - Bertrand Russell

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." - Thomas Paine

"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade." - Dale Carnegie

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." - Woodrow Wilson

"My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness." - Dalai Lama

"Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account." - Marcel Proust

"You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one." - Tiger Woods

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" - Benjamin Disraeli

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory." - William Hazlitt

"Each of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it." - Mary Lou Retton

"From what we get in life, we make a living. From what we give, we make a life." - Arthur Ashe

"Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it." - Shakti Gawain

"Few are those who see with their own eyes, and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein

"Just one accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions." - Grace Hopper

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy." - Jacques Maritain

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." - B. B. King

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail." - Charles F. Kettering

"As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances." - Confucius

"Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door." - John Wooden

"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible." - William James

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them." - Washington Irving

"You can take any amount of pain as long as you know it's going to end." - Harvey Mackay

"If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him." - Thomas Fuller

"Our patience will achieve more than our force." - Edmund Burke

"There is no hope of joy except in human relations." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." - Persius

"No great thing is created suddenly." - Epictetus

"Keep cool; anger is not an argument." - Daniel Webster

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." - Aesop

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau

"Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility." - Thomas Jefferson

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there." - Harvey Mackay

"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun." - Christina Rossetti

Customer engagement can’t be forced because not every customer is looking for a “relationship” with their brands

Customers engage when the content is relevant. People don't buy because they are made to understand; they buy because they feel understood.

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." - Les Brown

"You can stay young as long as you learn." - Emily Dickinson

"Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own." - Unknown

"What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea." - Robert Brault

"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one." - Neil Gaiman

"'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you." - Timothy Ferriss

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up." - Muhammad Ali

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else?s can shorten it." -Cullen Hightower

"Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"So many books, so little time." - Frank Zappa "Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." - C.S. Lewis

"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning." - Eugene S. Wilson

"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." - Jennifer Yane

"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it." - Samuel Johnson

"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read." - Thomas Jefferson

"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain

"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are." - Baltasar Gracian

"Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips." - John Wagner

"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors." - Rudyard Kipling

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Mark Twain

"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons." - Ruth Ann Schabacker

"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain." - Marcus Aurelius

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn

"If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan

"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." - Oscar Wilde

"Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful." - Charles Osgood

"Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most." - American proverb

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln

"The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." - Abraham Lincoln

"All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." - James Thurber

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." - Lorraine Hansberry

"When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, then sit back and let the world wonder how you did it." - Unknown

"Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness." - J. Parker

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." - Edgar Allan Poe

"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens." - Maria von Trapp

"Men show their superiority outside, animals inside." - Russian proverb

"Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams." - Patch Adams

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one." - Erma Bombeck

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." - Larry Bird

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." - William James

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber

"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become." - W. H. Auden

"Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind." - Charles Dudley Warner

"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss." - Thomas a Kempis

"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"He who conquers others is strong: he who conquers himself is mighty." - Lao Tzu

"To have long term success . . . you have to be obsessed in some way." - Pat Riley

"If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking - by all means ask!" - W. Clement Stone

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not entirely absurd." - Bertrand Russell

"Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in." - Dwight L. Moody

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." - Harold Geneen

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." - Soren Kierkegaard

"The secret to success in life is to make your vocation your vacation." - Mark Twain

"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

"People do not lack strength; they lack will." - Victor Hugo

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake." - Elbert Hubbard

"Order is a great person's need." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." - Henry Kissinger

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley

"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it." - Thomas a Kempis

"A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless." - Confucius

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating." - Sophocles

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail." - John Foster Dulles

"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate." - Malcolm X

"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours." - James Baldwin

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - Aesop

"No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Love is space and time measured by the heart." - Marcel Proust

"Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse." - Christopher Morely

"I don't ever look back. I look forward." - Steffi Graf

"It's not the people you fire who make your life miserable; it's the people you don't fire." - Harvey Mackay

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active." - Edith Hamilton

"Practice is the best instruction of them all." - Publilius Syrus

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." - Jim Rohn

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." - Napoleon Hill

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." - Helen Keller

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will treat the whole world as if it were a nail." - Edward de Bono

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott

"To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate." - Heraclitus

"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life." - Pablo Picasso

"There is no fear where there is faith." - Native American Proverb

"We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." - George S. Patton

"Never does a man portray his own character more vividly, than in his manner of portraying another." - Jean Paul Richter

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - C. G. Jung

"Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles." - Arab Proverb

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity." - G. K. Chesterton

"Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world." - Thomas Carlyle

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty." - T.S. Eliot

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." - Jacques Barzun

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens

"The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself." - Dale Carnegie

"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." - David McCullough

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself." - Dwight L. Moody

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." - Vince Lombardi

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren Bennis

"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving." - Max Beerbohm

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give his game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time." - Oprah Winfrey

"Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence." - Leo Stein

"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." - Charles Schulz

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision" - Helen Keller

"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once." - Jennifer Yane

"Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things." - Samuel M. Shoemaker

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." - Phyllis Diller

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give his game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time." - Oprah Winfrey

"There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero." - Walt Whitman

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." - Leonardo da Vinci

"You can never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth

"The only thing worse than losing a race is never having the guts to run." - Katie Couric

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake." - Elbert Hubbard

"You can always do more than you think you can." - John Wooden

"If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it." - William Penn

"A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else." - Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz

"You can't win unless you learn how to lose." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values." - Norman Thomas

"Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness." - Zoroaster

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." - Peter Drucker

"I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up." - Lee Trevino

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali

"Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes." - Elvis Presley

"To follow, without halt one aim: There's the secret of success." - Anna Pavlova

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight." - Leo Rosten

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur

"It is in our lives, not from our words, that our religion must be judged." - Thomas Jefferson

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

"Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all." - Carlos Castaneda

"If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening." - Marge Piercy

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa

"Live your life and forget your age." - Norman Vincent Peale

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Gandhi

"The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty." - William Hazlitt

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens

"If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles." - Benjamin Franklin

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." - Samuel Johnson

"I have found it of enormous value when I can permit myself to understand the other person." - Carl Rogers

"If we are strong, our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help." - John F. Kennedy

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." ~ Peter F. Drucker

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." - Dalai Lama

"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown." - Claude Bernard

"You can stay young as long as you learn." - Emily Dickinson

"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." - Henry Van Dyke

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

"You learn to love by loving-by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done." - Aldous Huxley

"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway." - Bob Beamon

"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education, never." - Alexander Dumas

"If there is no wind, row." - Latin Proverb

"You cannot create experience, you must undergo it." - Albert Camus

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy." - Andrew Carnegie

"Let me listen to myself and not to them." - Gertrude Stein

"Who I am may be understood as a function of what I am willing to take responsibility for." - Nathaniel Branden

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell

"The soul that has no established aim loses itself." - Michel de Montaigne

"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination." - Bernard Baruch

"Kites rise highest against the wind--not with it." - Winston Churchill

"My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match." - Bjorn Borg

"If you're not programming your mind...who is?" - I.M. Slade

"When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback." - Bill Copeland

"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of the immortals." - David Ogilvy

"The more you read and learn, the less your adversary will know." - Sun Tzu

"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." - John Erskine

"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days." - Doug Larson

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." - Seneca

"Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; gather the roses of life today." - Pierre de Ronsard

"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb." - Marcel Pagnol

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something." - Carl Sandburg

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morely

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see." - Theodore Roethke

"Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships." - Mike Krzyzewski

"People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything." - Filipino Proverb

"Slight not what's near, when aiming at what's far." - Euripides

"Never injure a friend, even in jest." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." - Albert Camus

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become." - Jim Rohn

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." - John D. Rockefeller

"Reason also is choice." - John Milton

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is good work today." - Elbert Hubbard

"Change not the mass but change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all." - Vachel Lindsay

"From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive." - Molly Ringwald

"We become what we think about." - Earl Nightengale

"Don't be a lion in your own house." - Czech Proverb

"Gratitude is the heart's memory." - French Proverb

"The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." - William James

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates

"A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused." - Henry David Thoreau

"Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." - Napoleon Hill

"Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together." - Joseph Joubert

"Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has." - Hubert Humphrey

"When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt." - Picabo Street

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao Tzu

"To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa

"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade." - Baltasar Gracian

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." - Dalai Lama

"The soul that has no established aim loses itself." - Michel de Montaigne

"Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today." - Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." - Ayn Rand

"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" - Sidney J. Harris

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur

"Everything you add to truth subtracts from the truth." - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due." - William Inge

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." - Alfred Tennyson

"The only gift is a portion of thyself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Henry David Thoreau

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence." - Democritus

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - Thomas Aquinis

"If you burn your neighbor's house down, it doesn't make your home look better." - Lou Holtz

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow." - James Dean

"To do two things at once is to do neither." - Publilius Syrus

"We write our own destiny; we become what we do." - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." - Adlai E. Stevenson

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." - Thomas Jefferson

"Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships." - Mike Krzyzewski

"People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything." - Filipino Proverb

"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall." Seneca

"Trust one who has tried." Virgil

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." Marcus Aurelius

"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them." Schopenh

"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."

"They can because they think they can." Virgil

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches." John Locke

"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with." M

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation." Saint Augustine

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it." William James

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

"There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying." - Josh Billings

"Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer." - Macy's Motto

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare." - Japanese proverb

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso

"You can tell any story 20 different ways. The trick is to pick one and go with it." - Clint Eastwood

"Anyone who dares to waste one hour of life has not yet discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." - Charles F. Kettering

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." - Oscar Wilde

"Plans fail for lack of counselors." - (Proverbs 15:22) The Holy Bible

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

"My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper." - Amy Sedaris

"The secret to success in life is to make your vocation your vacation." - Mark Twain

"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." - Nietzsche

"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Nietzsche

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." - Marcus Aurelius

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude." - Schopenhauer

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction." - Plato

"In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross." - Nietzsche

"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal." - Friedrich Engels

"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James

"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been." - George Eliot

"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got." - Karl Albrecht

"Man knows more than he understands." - Alfred Adler

"One may go a long way after one is tired." - French Proverb

"Everything must be made as simple as possible but not one bit simpler." - Albert Einstein

"Let us be brave in the face of adversity." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The excellent becomes the permanent." - Jane Addams

"Reason also is choice." - John Milton

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it." - John Ruskin

"Humankind cannot stand very much reality." - T.S. Eliot

"In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action." - Aristotle

"Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." - Bill Cosby

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble." - Rudyard Kipling

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day." - Emily Dickinson

"Don't expect anything original from an echo." - Unknown

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss

"Hate cages all the good things about you." - Terri Guillemets

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West

"If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names." - Elbert Hubbard

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - George Bernard Shaw

"Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something." - Jim Rohn

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen" - Samuel Paterson

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen" - Samuel Paterson

"It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins." - Chinese proverb

"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach." - Winston Churchill

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." - Michael Leunig

"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around." - Frank A. Clark

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." - Bill Watterson

"The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom." - Viktor Frankl

"Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless." - Bruce Lee

"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking." - H. L. Mencken

"Boredom is the root of all evil -- the despairing refusal to be oneself." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak." - John Donne

"Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy." - proverb

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." - Victor Hugo

"Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored." - Alice Walker

"Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly." - I saw this on a bumper sticker

"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food." - Erma Bombeck

"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds." - Wilt Chamberlain

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." - Michel de Montaigne

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?" - Neale Donald Walsch

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?" - Cicero

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." - John Burroughs

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." - John Adams

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill

"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness." - Marshall McLuhan

"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it." - Sarah Dessen

"If you want your children to listen, try talking softly" -to someone else." -Ann Landers

"You can't have everything... where would you put it?" - Steven Wright

"What a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later." - Mike Krzyzewski

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." - Alfred Adler

"I had confidence in my ability. You have to. If you don't, who will?" - Johnny Unitas

"They can do all because they think they can." - Virgil

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened." - Charles Spurgeon

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valery

"Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength." - John F. Kennedy

"No great thing is created suddenly." - Epictetus

"Overnight success stories take a long time." - Steve Jobs

"The empires of the future are empires of the mind." - Winston Churchill

"Faith is spiritualized imagination." - Henry Ward Beecher

"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else." - Nikki Giovanni

"I don't ever look back. I look forward." - Steffi Graf

The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown ~ Harry Selfridge

"We make our own fortune and call it destiny." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so." - Thomas Carlyle

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo

"Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn vos Savant

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love-and to put its trust in life." - Joseph Conrad

"Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it." - Pearl Bailey

"It takes more than a year to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour." - Chinese Proverb

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." - George Halas

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory." - Bill Russell

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself." - Muhammad Ali

"I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." - Wayne Gretzky

"Believe in something larger than yourself." - Barbara Bush

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live." - Joan Baez

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith." - Plato

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius

"The course of true love never did run smooth." - William Shakespeare

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." - Dietrich Bonheoffer

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." - Aristotle

"Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself." - Robert Heinlein

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." - Harold Geneen

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self." - William James

"I want to be all that I am capable of being." - Katherine Mansfield

"Knowledge is the antidote to fear." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Character is what you are in the dark." - Dwight L. Moody

"I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun." - John D. Rockefeller

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." - Robert E. Lee

"When anger rises, think of the consequences." - Confucius

"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them." - D. H. Lawrence

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best." - W. Somerset Maugham

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody." - Benjamin Franklin

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith." - Plato

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them." - Benjamin Jowett

"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to your good by and by." - Ovid

"The minute you choose to do what you really want to do it's a different kind of life." - Buckminster Fuller

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." - H. Jackson Brown

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence." - Samuel Johnson

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Success depends on people's enthusiasm, their dependability and their effectiveness." - Richard Branson

"The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon

"Forgiveness is another word for letting go." - Mathew Fox

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allen Poe

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." - G. K. Chesterton

"Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life." - William Blake

"Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle." - Lawrence Kushner

"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed." - Jim Rohn

"Act quickly, think slowly." - Greek Proverb

"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers

"There is no education like adversity." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Coffee makes me invincible. But when the cup is empty, I return to mere mortal." - Terri Guillemets

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's? " - Nietzsche

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein

"There aren't enough days in the weekend." - Rod Schmidt "Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation." - Unknown

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year." - Leonardo da Vinci

"I dream my painting and paint my dream." - Vincent van Gogh

"A great library contains the diary of the human race. - George Mercer Dawson

"What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?" - Seneca

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw

"Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly." - I saw this on a bumper sticker

"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" - Groucho Marx

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere." - Michel de Montaigne

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy

“Of all the stirring legends of the triumph of good over evil, none has ever been so inspirational to me as Sleeping Beauty.” - Walter Elias Disney

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." - Jesus Christ

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity." - Lou Holtz

"The good that you do will come back to you and it really doesn't cost very much." - David Packard

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

"To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one." - John Ruskin

"A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused." - Henry David Thoreau

"Learn as if you're going to live forever. Live as if you're going to die tomorrow." - John Wooden

"If you burn your neighbor's house down, it doesn't make your home look better." - Lou Holtz

"Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained." - W. H. Auden

"One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on." - D. H. Lawrence

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It is only a matter of time before Death is doomed to the Doom of Death. I'm so happy that my gay pink poppies have sprouted!

"What's the point of the dumb question you are asking?"

That girl you're scared to talk to wipes her ass and looks at the toilet paper just like you, son. Go for it!

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"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddha

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

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame." - Stephen King

"Your anxiety is directly proportional to your forgetfulness of nature, for you bring on yourself unlimited fears and desires." - Epicurus

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity - another man's I mean." - Mark Twain

"Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering. This is Primal Virtue." - Lao Tzu

"There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will." - Napoleon Hill

"A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains." - Dutch Proverb

"Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle." - Rebecca West

"You have to 'be' before you can 'do', and do before you can 'have'." - Zig Ziglar

"When you say you'll do it, do it. Don't give your word unless you intend to keep it." - John Wooden

"In life, there is only one good--knowledge. One evil--ignorance." - Socrates

"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first." - William Shakespeare

"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." - Eric Hoffer

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Jane Austen

"Forget about style; worry about results." - Bobby Orr

"Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure." - Benjamin Franklin

"The secret to success in life is to make your vocation your vacation." - Mark Twain

"Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." - Napoleon Hill

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar

"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure." - Oscar Wilde

"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." - Harry Truman

"What, then, is your duty? What the day demands." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." - Daniel H. Burnham

"There is only one real deprivation, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most." - May Sarton

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting; they cannot be the goal themselves." - Denis Waitley

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself." - Dale Carnegie

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance." - Nathaniel Branden

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices." - Henry David Thoreau

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." - Vince Lombardi

"Let us be brave in the face of adversity." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." - George Eliot

"He that is over-cautious will accomplish little." - Friedrich von Schiller

"To do two things at once is to do neither." - Publilius Syrus

"Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes." - Elvis Presley

"They that have lived a single day have lived an age." - Jean de la Bruyere

"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour." - William Cowper

"The human race is governed by its imagination." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action." - Aristotle

"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night." - Kahlil Gibran

"Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness." - Zoroaster

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." - Aristotle

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide

"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying." - Christian Gellert

"A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks." - Ben Jonson

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him." - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." - Cato the Elder

"When humor goes, there goes civilization." - Erma Bombeck

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due." - William Inge

"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep." - Denis Waitley

"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life." - Denis Waitley

"The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we've got." - David O. McKay

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement." - Henry Ford

"Always do more than is required of you." - George S. Patton

"We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack." - Henry Emerson Fosdick

"There are never enough 'I love yous'." - Lenny Bruce

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old." - Mark Twain

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met." - Unknown

"What our age lacks is not reflection but passion." - Soren Kierkegaard

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." - Mark Twain

"If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." - Henry J. Kaiser

"I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared. I ain't scared any more." - Hank Aaron

"Neutrality consists in having the same weights and measures for each." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial." - H. Ross Perot

"You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence." - C. G. Jung

"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement." - Bertrand Russell

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow." - James Dean

"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Ask advice from everyone, but act with your own mind." - Jewish Proverb

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher." - Chinese Proverb

"There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance." - Victor Hugo

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot

"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde

"The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one." - Toni Morrison

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one." - George Bernard Shaw

"Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in." - Jim Rohn

"The more we know, the better we forgive." - Germaine de Stael

"You can take any amount of pain as long as you know it's going to end." - Harvey Mackay

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill

"Inch by inch, it's a cinch." - Robert Schuller

"Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality." - Blaise Pascal

"Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg

"It's always too soon to quit!" - Norman Vincent Peale

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self." - Charles Spurgeon

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." - E. E. Cummings

"In adversity remember to keep an even mind." - Horace

"The human body is the only machine that wears out faster if it is not used." - Harvey Mackay

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." - Aesop

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will treat the whole world as if it were a nail." - Edward de Bono

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

"The highest result of education is tolerance." - Helen Keller

"A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected." - William Safire

"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar Bradley

"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality." - Nikos Kazantzakis

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." - Jack London

"No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning." - John W. Gardner

"Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks." - Dr. SunWolf

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke

"If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning." - Griff Niblack

"The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence." - Ayn Rand

"To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions." - William James

"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." - Earl Nightingale

"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out." - Unknown

"People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped." - Unknown

"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree." - Thomas Campbell

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." - Sally Field

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere." - Albert Einstein

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." - Alexander the Great

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." - Edgar Watson Howe

Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

"I have told you the story in the very words of the scriptures. There's no mention of deception in it."

Before he dies, all that he has experienced condenses into one question, which he has yet to put to the doorkeeper.

K.- "The doorkeeper gave the message of salvation to the man only when it could no longer help him."

"The soil in your neighborhood is particularly rich, so it provides moles with nourishment and they become exceptionally large"

The 4th: everyone grew weary of the meaningless affair: the gods grew weary, the eagles grew weary, Prometheus' wound closed wearily

One day a man sees a monkey and he is astonished, the monkey remains ambivalent.

All human error is impatience, a premature renunciation of method, a delusive pinning down of a delusion.

There is a point of no return. This point has to be reached.

"Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream; not theirs." - Dan Zadra

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." - Seneca

"Calculation never made a hero." - John Henry Newman

"There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year." - Unknown

"Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity." - Aristotle

"To do less than your best is a sin." - Oprah Winfrey

"I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have." - Studs Terkel

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too." - Thomas Fuller

"No one has ever drowned in sweat." - Lou Holtz

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." - Unknown

"It is always the secure who are humble." - G. K. Chesterton

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar

"If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes." - Gaelic Proverb

"Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky." - Mason Cooley

"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand

"A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else." - Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz

"No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his mind." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them." - Colin L. Powell

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." - Jonathan Winters

"There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life-reciprocity." - Confucius

"Know thyself' means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do." - Menander

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." - George Bernard Shaw

"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them." - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"This should be a man's attitude: 'Few things will disturb him at all; nothing will disturb him much.'" - Thomas Jefferson

"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson

"Experience is a good school but the fees are high." - Heinrich Heine

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." - Jesus Christ

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life." - Oscar Wilde

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." - Les Brown

"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." - John F. Kennedy

"Pleasing ware is half sold." - George Herbert

"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain." - John F. Kennedy

"Reason also is choice." - John Milton

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." - Flannery O'Connor

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind." - Pearl Buck

"Knowledge is the antidote to fear." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?" - Edith Sitwell

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." - Samuel Johnson

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Hard work made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win." - Nadia Comaneci

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

"In union there is strength." - Aesop

"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need is just one more good idea." - Jim Rohn

"Bitterness imprisons life. Love releases it." - Henry Emerson Fosdick

"Be really whole and all things will come to you." - Lao Tzu

"Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly." - Harvey Mackay

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." - Max DePree

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens." - Wayne Dyer

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." - Paul "Bear" Bryant

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." - Gertrude Stein

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books." - Chinese Proverb

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts

"A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused." - Henry David Thoreau

"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway." - Bob Beamon

"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win." - Patty Berg

"If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." - John F. Kennedy

"There are never enough 'I love yous'." - Lenny Bruce

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." - Gail Sheehy

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." - Horace

"Indecision is the thief of opportunity." - Jim Rohn

"One finger can't lift a pebble." - Native American Proverb

"Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." - Leonardo da Vinci

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work." - Colin L. Powell

"Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy." - Jacques Maritain

"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Mark Twain

"One hand cannot applaud alone." - Arab Proverb

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." - Chinese Proverb

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." - Grace Hopper

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." - Ernest Hemingway

"The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility." - Michael Korda

"We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough." - Helen Keller

"Genius is the capacity for taking infinite pains." - Thomas Carlyle

"Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers." - Erik Pepke

"Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book." - John Ruskin

"In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine." - Unknown

"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." - John Erskine

"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein." - proverb

"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne." - Quentin Crisp

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." - Emily Kimbrough

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Jules Renard

"Leadership is action, not position." - Donald H. McGannon

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." - Sylvia Plath

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." - Harrison Ford

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." - Unknown

"Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown." - Unknown

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G.K. Chesterton

"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go." - Brooks Atkinson

"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." - Mary Engelbreit

"One man's crappy software is another man's full time job." - Jessica Gaston

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach

"Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps." - Lemony Snicket

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." - Harold Wilson

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." - Carl R. Rogers

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

"If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly." - Saint Vincent de Paul

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one." - Erma Bombeck

"When a man points his finger at someone, he'd better remember he has four fingers pointing at himself." - Louis Nizer

"Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly." - George MacDonald

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" - Maurice Freehill

"Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse." - Kimberly Johnson

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." - Stephen King

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine

"Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work." - Unknown

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." - Kin Hubbard

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." - Desiderius Erasmus

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." - Thomas Szasz

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too." - Helen Hayes

"Think for yourself, and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so, too." - Francois Voltaire

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them." - Leo Tolstoy

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one." - Mark Twain

"Faith is spiritualized imagination." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others." - Feodor Dostoyevsky

"Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all." - Thomas a Kempis

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." - Alfred Tennyson

"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment on that which seems." - Robert Southey

"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"Take things as they are." - Bruce Lee

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." - Henry Van Dyke

"There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero." - Walt Whitman

"If you want to soar with the eagles, you can't hoot with the owls." - Steve Lavin

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." - H. Jackson Brown

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way." - Satchel Paige

"To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream." - Hans Selye

"Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work." - Karl Albrecht

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself." - Muhammad Ali

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind." - Richard Dehmel

"Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of very man or woman." - Conrad Hilton

"Hard work made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win." - Nadia Comaneci

"Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair." - James Baldwin

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates

"There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world." - Thomas Jefferson

"There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world." - Thomas Jefferson

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish." - Ovid

"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it." - Thomas a Kempis

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill

"If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." - Maya Angelou

"It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To love and be loved will be the greatest event in our lives." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk." - Sophocles

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." - Edmund Burke

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." - Robert E. Lee

"The truth is always the strongest argument." - Sophocles

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." - John Locke

"The empires of the future are empires of the mind." - Winston Churchill

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is good work today." - Elbert Hubbard

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become." - Jim Rohn

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." - Marianne Williamson

"A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong." - Milton Berle

"In the end, the choice you make makes you." - John Wooden

"Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians." - Chinese Proverb

"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible." - William James

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them." - Benjamin Jowett

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." - Desiderius Erasmus

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." - Thomas Szasz

"Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention." - Robert Brault

"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current." - Thomas Jefferson

"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others." - Confucius

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ~ Lincoln

"Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it." - Gene Perret

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." - Hubert H. Humphrey

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Cicero

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks." - Henri Bergson

"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way." - Henry Miller

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein

"A great library contains the diary of the human race. - George Mercer Dawson

"One man's crappy software is another man's full time job." - Jessica Gaston

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

"Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime." - Red Skelton

"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning." - Eugene S. Wilson

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." - Michael Cibenko

"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." - Ben Hecht

"I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!" - Unknown

"There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen." - Alexandre Dumas

"No one wants advice - only corroboration." - John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read." - Thomas Jefferson

"Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair." - Sam Ewing

"How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others." - June Ahern

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." - Robert Fripp

"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works." - Bill Vaughan

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." - Alexander Pope

"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action." - Brendan Francis

"An unwatched pot boils immediately." - H.F. Ellis

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah Winfrey

"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance." - Reuben Blades

"The phrase 'working mother' is redundant." - Jane Sellman "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin Proverb

"When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you." - Proverb

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl G. Jung

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason

"The wise man reads both books and life itself." - Lin Yutang

"The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability." - Edgar Allan Poe

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'" - William A. Ward

"Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence." - Leo Stein

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." - Sicilian proverb

"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?" - Marilyn Monroe

"Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." -Socrates.

"When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood." - Sam Ewing

"Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear." -Unknown

"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Home is having a large, loving close-knit family in another city." - George Burns

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets." -Ogden Nash

"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future." - David Gerrold

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." ~D. Elton Trueblood

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." - Chinese proverb

"Even nectar is poison if taken to excess." - Hindu Proverb

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." -Jimmy Durante

"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want." - Oscar Wilde

"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are." - Baltasar Gracian

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." - Seneca

"If you want your children to listen, try talking softly" -to someone else." -Ann Landers

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." - Bern Williams

"One joy scatters a hundred griefs." - Chinese proverb

"Live everyday as if it were your last, because one of these days you will be right." -Unknown

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach." - Winston Churchill

"Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets." - Baltasar Gracian

"Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother." - Beverly Jones

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else?s can shorten it." -Cullen Hightower

"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing." - Will Rogers

"The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it." -Mal Pancoast

"The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor." - Unknown

"Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that." - Erich Heller

"God has entrusted me with myself." - Epictetus "Today is the last day of some of your life." - Unknown

"Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was." - Will Rogers

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill

"Without labor nothing prospers." - Sophocles

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution." - Robert Zend

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." - Harriet Braiker

"Are you guys ready? Let's roll!" - Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat." - Henry Emerson Fosdick

"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." - Fred Allen

"A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years." - Wendell L. Willkie

"Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures." - Mark Scharenbroich

"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." - Gerald Good

"How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away." - Bill Copeland

"Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?" - Unknown

"Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it." - Robert Brault

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people." - Martina Navratilova

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn

"If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise." - Unknown

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Doug Larson

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." - Plutarch

"If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would." - Baltasar Gracian

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds." - Will Rogers

"Decaf? No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine stream." - Author Unknown

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." - Alfred Hitchcock

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary

"Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies." - Edward Abbey

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France

"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult." - Plutarch

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy

"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it." - Honore de Balzac

"Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important." - Carl Reiner

"The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public." - Phyllis Diller

"Don't expect anything original from an echo." - Unknown

"I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?" - Henry Moore

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." - H. Jackson Browne

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams "We need not destroy the past. It is gone." - John Cage

"The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you." - Robert Brault

"Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves." - Italian proverb

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William A. Ward

"Never laugh at live dragons." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Several excuses are always less convincing than one." - Aldous Huxley

"The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus." - Bruce Lee

"My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is." - Ron Olson

"He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny

"Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is." - William E. Barrett

"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around." - Terry Pratchett

"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission." - Grace Hopper

"Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day." - Gene Perret

"Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?" - Coleman Cox

"Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird." - Paul Eldridge

"If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought." - Dennis Roth

"Without music life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau

"Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'" - Virgil

"If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance." - Andrea Boydston

"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids." - Robert Brault

"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." - Rudyard Kipling

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." - Doug Larson

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected." - Henry Cate

"A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name." - Evan Esar

"Make the workmanship surpass the materials." - Ovid

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth." - Jewish proverb

"There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity." - General Douglas MacArthur

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest." - Larry Lorenzoni

"Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it." - Joe Clark

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." - Michel de Montaigne

"There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" - Carrie Fisher

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of." - Charles Richards

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you." - Frank Crane

"Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up." - Bill Vaughn

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." - Buddha

"Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless." - Bruce Lee

"I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke

"Don't find fault. Find a remedy." - Henry Ford

"Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets." - Baltasar Gracian

"Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance." - Epicurus

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." - Henry Winkler

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." - Harrison Ford

"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." - W.J. Cameron

"Stand up to the blow that fate has struck upon you; make the most of all you still have coming to you." - Anthony Banks

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." - Gelett Burgess

"Any idiot can be liked. It takes talent to scare the crap out of people." - Alison Arngrim

"There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house." - Joe Ryan

"Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that." - Erich Heller

"Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working." - Unknown

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere." - Michel de Montaigne

"Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids." - Sam Levenson

"Charity sees the need, not the cause." - German proverb

"The one charm of the past is that it is the past." - Oscar Wilde

"Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Nietzsche

"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive." - Robert Frost

"Seize the (holi)day." - Dr. Richard Rose

"Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos." - Don Kardong

"Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about." - Sam Ewing

"Never underestimate the power of a simple tool." - Craig Bruce

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?" - Cicero

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." - Abraham Lincoln

"What is a home without children? Quiet." - Henny Youngman

"I like the word 'indolence.' It makes my laziness seem classy." - Bern Williams

"No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett

"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around." - Frank A. Clark

"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds." - Wilt Chamberlain

"He conquers who endures." - Persius

"A leader is a dealer in hope." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides." - Frank Tyger

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." - Blaise Pascal

"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." - Charles Schulz

"Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun." - George Scialabra

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call." - Liz Carpenter

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree." - Marian Wright Edelman

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James

"This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." - Taylor Caldwell

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself." - Charles Dickens

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." - Seneca

"Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman

"If you can't forgive and forget, pick one." - Robert Brault

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that." - Lauren Bacall

The trouble with using experience as your guide is that sometimes the final exam comes first, then the lesson ~ Will Rogers ...

... and yet, the great thing about experience is that you've become very good at taking surprise exams ;-)

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something ~ Thomas A. Edison ... and Facebook Data Science team ;-)

"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain

"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand

"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek." - Robert Lewis Stevenson

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

"The only source of knowledge is experience." - Albert Einstein

"It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue." - Greek Proverb

"We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love." - Sigmund Freud

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." - Peter Marshall

"There is only one real deprivation, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most." - May Sarton

"A theory must be tempered with reality." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold." - Aristotle

"Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber

"There is joy in transcending self to serve others." - Mother Teresa

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley

"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time." - Elbert Hubbard

"Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk, every step will show." - Denis Waitley

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow." - James Dean

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." - Dalai Lama

"We are the hero of our own story." - Mary McCarthy

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

"Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin!" - Unknown

"'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you." - Timothy Ferriss

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant." - George Burns

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." - Warren Buffett

"The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom." - Viktor Frankl

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Robert Byrne

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber

"Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about." - George Allen, Sr.

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." - Native American Indian Proverb

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss

"Decaf? No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine stream." - Author Unknown

"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out." - Unknown

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." - Gelett Burgess

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." - Franklin P. Jones

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw

"You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself." - Gene Mauch

"Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world." - Lauren Bacall

"A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless." - May Sarton

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." - Muhammad Ali

"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." - Bernard Baruch

"Endurance is frequently a form of indecision." - Elizabeth Bibesco

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." - William Blake

"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees." - Boris Marshalov

"He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs." - Torvald Gahlin

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang." - Charley Reese

"Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living." - Tom O'Connor

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right ? for you?ll be criticized anyway." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." - Duke Ellington

"Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm." - Sidney J. Phillips

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." - Albert Einstein

"The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person." - Norman Vincent Peale

"It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken." - Robert Brault

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." - J.K. Rowling

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." - Charles Dickens

"The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others." - Confucius

"The reason I talk to myself is because I?m the only one whose answers I accept." - George Carlin

"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." - Albert Einstein

"Do noble things, do not dream them all day long." - Charles Kingsley

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this." - Terry Pratchett

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once." - Stephen King

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra

"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train." - Oscar Wilde

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." - Oscar Wilde

"I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong." - Lemony Snicket

"I get to go to overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." - Donald G. Smith

"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love." - W. Somerset Maugham

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass

"If you're a Boy Scout on Mars with a compass, you're lost." - Jack Connerney

"Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday." - Mario Rocco

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" - C.S. Lewis

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." - Warren Buffett

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." - Edgar Allan Poe

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it." - Sarah Dessen

"A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange." - Unknown

"Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you." is a greeting, not a question." - Arthur Guiterman

"I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific." - Steven Wright

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one." - Bill Gates

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere." - Albert Einstein

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy

"I'm at the age where I'm grateful to anyone who can tell me my whereabouts." - Robert Brault

"Life is long if you know how to use it." - Seneca

"Life has a funny way of giving us answers when we haven't even asked the questions." - Jennifer Olds

"Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together" - Marilyn Monroe

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." - G.K. Chesterton

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it." - William James

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." - Roger Lewin

"Great performers are, by definition, abnormal." - John Eliot

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." - Lesley P. Hartley

"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." - Gerald Good

"When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time." - George Boas

"Nothing is more valid than a man I meet who has tried to succeed on his own. Everything else is just a lie." - Nick Longo

"Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave." - Winnie the Pooh

"Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides." - Frank Tyger

"Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common." - Satchel Paige

"There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying." - Josh Billings

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame." - Stephen King

"The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales." - Aesop

"Whatever is fair in love and war is also fair in crimefighting." - Batman

"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance." - Reuben Blades

"Man does not live by coffee alone. Have a danish." - Unknown

"I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you." - Dr. Seuss

"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens." - Maria von Trapp

"I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes." - Richard Steele

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do." - Jean de la Bruyere

"I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other." - Stephen Chbosky

"To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop." - Mozart

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you." - Dr. Seuss

"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being." - Michel de Montaigne

"How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms." - Aristotle

"The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read." - Oscar Wilde

"What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!" - Logan Pearsall Smith

"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today." - Seneca

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." - John Burroughs

"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one." - Neil Gaiman

"If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum." - Chinese proverb

"Endurance is frequently a form of indecision." - Elizabeth Bibesco

"You can't have everything... where would you put it?" - Steven Wright

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." - Victor Hugo

"The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go." - Steve Maraboli

"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of the immortals." - David Ogilvy

"A good book has no ending." - R.D. Cumming

"What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea." - Robert Brault

"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." - G. Behn

"Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks." - Dr. SunWolf

"Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes." - Panchatantra

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi

"Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience." - Michel de Montaigne

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do." - Jean de la Bruyere

"Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy- back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them." - Unknown

"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." - Toni Morrison

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa

"The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow." - H. G. Wells

"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values." - William S. Boroughs

"If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?" - Neale Donald Walsch

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." - Colin Wilson

"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." - Gordon R. Dickson

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend." - Sarah Dessen

"Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin!" - Unknown

"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." - Arthur Koestler

"The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons." - G.T. Hewitt

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Chinese proverb

"Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment." - Montaigne

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." - Blaise Pascal

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn

"Do noble things, do not dream them all day long." - Charles Kingsley

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." - Phyllis Diller

"Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children." - Native American proverb

"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific." - Steven Wright

"One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball." - Don Carter

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." - Doug Larson

"There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it." - Diana Trilling

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov

"The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible." - Judith Regan

"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering." - Steven Wright

"From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors." - proverb

"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want." - Oscar Wilde

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability." - Roy L. Smith

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." - John Leonard

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." - Henry Boye

"Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly." - George MacDonald

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute." - William Lyon Phelps

"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once." - Jennifer Yane

"True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking." - attributed to Arthur McBride Bloch

"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." - William Hazlitt

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." - Billy Wilder

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris

"Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez?"Love is not singular except in syllable." - Marvin Taylor

"Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories." - Felix Cohen

"Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of 'what-if.'" - Dodinsky

"Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Richard Steele

"It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken." - Aristotle

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens." - Michel de Montaigne

"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet." - Colette

"If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." - Berke Breathed

"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Doing things is not the same as getting things done." - Jared Silver

"If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon." - Doug Rader

"I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here." - Unknown

"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time." - Napoleon I

"True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.." - Bertrand Russell

"There's no thief like a bad movie." - Sam Ewing

"It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins." - Chinese proverb

"Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay." - William Styron

"Talk doesn't cook rice." - Chinese proverb

"Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes." - Elvis Presley

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." - Doug Larson

"There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it." - Diana Trilling

On the stairs I met one of the tenants.

"Going out again, you rascal?"

"What can I do?" I said. "I've just had a ghost in my room."

Today, reality is a flesh-eating demon. Note to self: fire the scullery maid. Note to self: the bouganvile is lovely this time of year.

The nite is as dark as my soul & as in my apartment. My apartment is also dark b/c I ran out of lamp oil. My soul is also out of lamp oil.

"One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball." - Don Carter

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson

"Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him." - Lord Chesterfield

"If the King loves music, it is well with the land." - Mencius

"Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority." - William Arthur Ward

"Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful." - Charles Osgood

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." - Washington Irving

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." - Edgar Watson Howe

"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." - Antisthenes

"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers." - Adlai E. Stevenson

"Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart." - Unknown

"Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment." - Iara Gassen

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." - Albert Einstein

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein

"Hate cages all the good things about you." - Terri Guillemets

"Journalism largely consists in saying, "Lord Jones is dead," to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive." - G.K. Chesterton

"A good book has no ending." - R.D. Cumming

"Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one." - Benjamin Franklin

"Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words: mine and thine, were taken away." - Anaxagoras

"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train." - Oscar Wilde

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die." - Klingon proverb

"Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart." - Countess of Blessington

"There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies." - Robert Brault

"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one." - Augustine Birrell

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up." - Bill Vaughn

"It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it." - Unknown

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - Frederick Douglass

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." - Alfred Hitchcock

"When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback." - Bill Copeland

"When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback." - Bill Copeland

"When a cow laughs, does milk come out her nose?" - Unknown

"To belittle, you have to be little." - Khalil Gibran

"A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added." - Chris Montaigne

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day." - Emily Dickinson

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day." - Emily Dickinson

"There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror." - Orson Welles

"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it." - Buddy Hackett

"A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence." - Barbara Walters

"Don?t worry about making something out of your life ? worry about making someone out of your life." - Coco Chanel

"Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored." - Alice Walker

"If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it." - Domenico Cieri Estrada

"Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow." - Fernanda Miramontes- Landeros

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington

"A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it." - Unknown

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." - Lewis Grizzard

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." - John Donne

"When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing." - Unknown

"We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot." - Abraham Lincoln

"When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long." - Unknown

"When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long." - Unknown

"Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional." - Robert Brault

"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." - Kin Hubbard

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner

"As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see." - Julius Caesar

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree." - Jim Rohn

"Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living." - Tom O'Connor

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing and the lawn mower is broken." - James Dent

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme." - Daniel Defoe

"Middle age: When you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you." - Ogden Nash

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson

"Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him." - Lord Chesterfield

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." - W. Edwards Deming

"There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity." - General Douglas MacArthur

"Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art." - Miguel de Cervantes

"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food." - Erma Bombeck

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." - George S. Patton

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." - Winnie the Pooh

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision" - Helen Keller

"A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent." - Unknown

14 May. Lost all regularity in writing. In the open a great deal. As though on the rack. Afraid I am unfit because of a bad heart.

It IS there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.

It is only a matter of time before Death is doomed to the Doom of Death. I'm so happy that my gay pink poppies have sprouted!

"Not all we want comes true, not all dreams that blossomed have borne fruit, your solid remains lie here, already indifferent to every kick"

"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself." Confucius

"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent." Epictetus

"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression." Confucius

"Whatever you do, do with all your might." Cicero

" Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state." Karl Marx

"As he brews, so shall he drink." - Ben Jonson

"Men are disturbed, not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen." - Epictetus

"When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt." - Picabo Street

"Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians." - Chinese Proverb

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes

"Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day." - Albert Camus

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

"No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

"We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves." - Rene Descartes

"The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time." - Henrik Ibsen

"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can." - Henry Ford

"I'm not the kind of a guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in." - William Sayoran

"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." - Oscar Wilde

"When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time." - Stephen King

"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness." - Marshall McLuhan

"When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, then sit back and let the world wonder how you did it." - Unknown

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy." - Spanish proverb

"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers." - William James

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddha

"Your anxiety is directly proportional to your forgetfulness of nature, for you bring on yourself unlimited fears and desires." - Epicurus

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity - another man's I mean." - Mark Twain

"Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering. This is Primal Virtue." - Lao Tzu

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old." - Mark Twain

… if this was a comedy he would insist on playing it to the end.

Previously I did not understand why I got no answers to my question; today I do not understand how I could believe I was capable of asking

Only ever apologize repeatedly when the world swallows your innocence with the urgency of Russian vodka.

"They are able because they think they are able." Virgil

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”

“-so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That is not the sort of belief that indicates real faith.

A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.

Man's original sin is the complaint, which he never ceases making, that a wrong has been done him, that the original sin was against him.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary

"Whatever commandment the prisoner has disobeyed Is written upon his body by the Harrow."

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

" It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess." Seneca

"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat." Friedrich Engels

"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." Aristotle

" We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope." Epictetus

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

"Seize now and here the hour that is, nor trust some later day!" - Horace

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." - Edmund Burke

"The highest result of education is tolerance." - Helen Keller

"One falsehood spoils a thousand truths." - Ashanti Proverb

"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." - Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." - Hannah Arendt

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer

"Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open." - Harvey Mackay

"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." - French Proverb

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." - George Jean Nathan

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." - Epictetus

"Obviously, a man's judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it." - Arthur Hays Sulzberger

"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something." - Fred Smith

"No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by." - Jim Valvano

"Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters." - Cato the Elder

"You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie." - Michel de Montaigne

"There is no fear where there is faith." - Native American Proverb

"Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has." - Hubert Humphrey

"In the realm of Nature, there is nothing purposeless, trivial or unnecessary." - Mainmonides

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." Machiavelli

"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out." - Unknown

"People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped." - Unknown

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." - Sally Field

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." - Alexander the Great

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." - Edgar Watson Howe

"Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream; not theirs." - Dan Zadra

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." - Seneca

"There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year." - Unknown

"What our age lacks is not reflection but passion." - Soren Kierkegaard

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." - Mark Twain

"If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." - Henry J. Kaiser

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke

"If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning." - Griff Niblack

"The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence." - Ayn Rand

"To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions." - William James

"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

Fear means unhappiness but it does not follow that courage means happiness, which possibly aims at more than our strength can achieve.

Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

For time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy ...

25 December. A very pious man in Prague, a certain K., knew a great deal of the worldly sciences. He had studied them all in the toilet.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

"Don't misunderstand," said the priest. "Scriptures are unalterable and the comments often enough merely express the commentators' despair."

Paths are made by walking.

We are convinced these ancient laws are scrupulously administered; nevertheless it is a painful thing to be ruled by laws one does not know.

"Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly." Epictetus

"The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is to be insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." - Napoleon Hill

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"A man without a smiling face must not open a shop." - Chinese Proverb

"Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met." - Unknown

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

"Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee." Epictetus

"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock

"To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise." - George Eliot

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." - Unknown

"Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers." - Erik Pepke

"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." - John Erskine

"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne." - Quentin Crisp

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." - Emily Kimbrough

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Jules Renard

"Leadership is action, not position." - Donald H. McGannon

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." - Sylvia Plath

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland

"Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown." - Unknown

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G.K. Chesterton

"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." - Mary Engelbreit

A cage went in search of a bird.

"All the same," I called up, "if you steal my ghost from me all is over between us, forever."

"Oh, I was only joking" he said.

Paths are made by walking.

No golden raisens in my muesli in my pre-dawn breakfast this morning. Only black raisens. Black ones. Black.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.

"The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration." - Kurt Vonnegut

"The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration." - Kurt Vonnegut

"The secret to success in life is to make your vocation your vacation." - Mark Twain

"You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills

"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." - Confucius

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves." - Dale Carnegie

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." - Baltasar Gracian

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar

"If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking - by all means ask!" - W. Clement Stone

"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them." - Tom Stoppard

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement." - Bertrand Russell

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." - Peter Drucker

"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" - Groucho Marx

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself." - Muhammad Ali

"Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last." - Mother Teresa

"One man's crappy software is another man's full time job." - Jessica Gaston

"Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps." - Lemony Snicket

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." - Harold Wilson

"The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m." - Unknown

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one." - Erma Bombeck

"Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly." - George MacDonald

"Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse." - Kimberly Johnson

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

"Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks." - Henri Bergson

"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way." - Henry Miller

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." - Desiderius Erasmus

"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current." - Thomas Jefferson

"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others." - Confucius

"Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it." - Gene Perret

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." - Hubert H. Humphrey

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." - Michael Cibenko

"There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen." - Alexandre Dumas

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair." - Sam Ewing

"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance." - Reuben Blades

"When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you." - Proverb

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason

"If you want your children to listen, try talking softly" -to someone else." -Ann Landers

"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen" -Sarah Brown

"Live everyday as if it were your last, because one of these days you will be right." -Unknown

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach." - Winston Churchill

"Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets." - Baltasar Gracian

"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill

"Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it." - Robert Brault

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." - Plutarch

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds." - Will Rogers

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France

"The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public." - Phyllis Diller

"My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is." - Ron Olson

"He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny

"Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is." - William E. Barrett

"Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day." - Gene Perret

"Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?" - Coleman Cox

"Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird." - Paul Eldridge

"Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'" - Virgil

"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids." - Robert Brault

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected." - Henry Cate

"A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name." - Evan Esar

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest." - Larry Lorenzoni

"There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" - Carrie Fisher

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"There is no education like adversity." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet." - Chinese Proverb

"Neutrality consists in having the same weights and measures for each." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"I never ask the wounded person how he feels; I myself become the wounded person." - Walt Whitman

A long time ago he had firmly made up his mind to watch closely every least movement so as not to be surprised by any indirect attack

The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens...

"There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body."

If an ant shriveled under sun through a magnifying glass, would you blame the light or hand? Though, he wilts regardless of his direction.

"Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence." - Leo Stein

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." - Sicilian proverb

"When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood." - Sam Ewing

"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets." -Ogden Nash

"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future." - David Gerrold

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." ~D. Elton Trueblood

"Even nectar is poison if taken to excess." - Hindu Proverb

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." -Jimmy Durante

"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want." - Oscar Wilde

"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are." - Baltasar Gracian

"Calculation never made a hero." - John Henry Newman

"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive." - Robert Frost

The writing table: "he must never move away from it, must hold onto it with all his might, if he does not want to fall into madness."

"I am Daenerys Stormborn. Your Masters may have told you lies about me, or they may have told you nothing. It does not matter. I have nothing to say to them. I only speak to you. First, I went to Astapor. Those who were slaves in Astapor, now stand behind me, free. Next I went to Yunkai. Those who were slaves in Yunkai, now stand behind me, free. Now I have come to Meereen. I am not your enemy. Your enemy is beside you. Your enemy steals and murders your children. Your enemy has nothing for you but chains and suffering, and commands. I do not bring you commands. I bring you a choice. And I bring your enemies what they deserve." - Daenerys Targaryen

"Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself." - Lao-tsu

“It is firepower, and firepower that arrives at the right time and place, that counts in modern war.” — B.H. Liddell Hart

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” — Nathan Hale | 1776

“The Marine Corps … took a boy and made him a man.” — Cpl. Edwin C. Bears | 1942

"In war, the chief incalculable is the human will." — B.H. Liddell Hart

"Good enough never is." - Debbi Field

"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." - Plato

People rise to the challenge... when it is their challenge. A shared vision is not just an idea, it is a force in people's hearts.

"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it." Epictetus

"Obviously, a man's judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it." - Arthur Hays Sulzberger

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." Saint Augustine

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it." Socrates

"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act." Cicero

"The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason." - Blaise Pascal

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." - Peter Ustinov

"We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire." - George Eliot

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating." - Sophocles

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important." - Thomas H. Huxley

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allen Poe

"Don't be a lion in your own house." - Czech Proverb

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know." ~ Mark Twain ... It's Friday afternoon, go home team ;-)

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you." - Arnold Palmer

"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater." - Epictetus

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power." - Honore de Balzac

"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar." - William Faulkner

"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?" - Erich Fromm

"The arrow that has left the bow never returns." - Persian Proverb

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him." - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

"One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Each of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it." - Mary Lou Retton

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." Marcus Aurelius

"Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing." - Pablo Picasso

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark." - Helen Keller

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Lewis Stevenson

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over." - Aesop

"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope." - Ovid

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark." - Helen Keller

"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with." - Peter Marshall

"Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else." - Henry Ward Beecher

"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving." - Max Beerbohm

"He conquers who endures." - Persius

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive. But it is the lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain

"Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships." - Mike Krzyzewski

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." - Max DePree

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker

"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow." - Aesop

"Character is to man what carbon is to steel." - Napoleon Hill

"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been." - George Eliot

"Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." - Mother Teresa

"He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner." - Benjamin Franklin

"Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it's hopeless." - Chester W. Nimitz

"If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy." - Jim Rohn

"The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions." - Andre Maurois

"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first." Schopenhauer

"In order to act wisely it is not enough to be wise." - Feodor Dostoyevsky

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur." - Leo Tolstoy

"It's not enough to be busy...the question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature." Saint Augustine

"Don't let a single game break your heart." - Mike Krzyzewski

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him." - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." - Jeanne Moreau

"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction." - James Baldwin

"The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret." - Leo Buscaglia

"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds." - Alexander Graham Bell

"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life." - George Burns

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valery

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one." - George Bernard Shaw

"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are." - John W. Gardner

"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust." Cicero

"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity." - Ben Jonson

"The path of duty lies in the thing nearby, but men see it in things far off." - Chinese Proverb

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate." - Heraclitus

"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself." - Dwight L. Moody

"You can't ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession." - Spanish Proverb

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none." - Edmund Burke

"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it." - Baltasar Gracian

"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are." - John W. Gardner

"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." - Horace Walpole

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." - Harry Truman

"Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams

"In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins." - Chinese Proverb

"It's so much better to desire than to have." - Anouk Aimee

"There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner." - G. K. Chesterton

"It takes two to speak the truth-one to speak and another to hear." - Henry David Thoreau

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." - Willie Nelson

"We must love one another or die." - W. H. Auden

"Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." - Charles M. Schulz

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others." - Feodor Dostoyevsky

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books." - Chinese Proverb

"We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are." - Harry Truman

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony." - Thomas Merton

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov

"No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by." - Jim Valvano

"Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man." - Sophocles

"Great love and great achievements involve great risk." - Dalai Lama

"If there's a way to do it better . . . find it." - Thomas Edison

"The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. You've got to have a what-the-hell attitude." - Julia Child

"Skill to do comes of doing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion." - Martha Graham

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame." - Erica Jong

"I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth." - Will Rogers

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." - Aesop

"People do not lack strength; they lack will." - Victor Hugo

"Our life is what our thoughts make of it." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing." William James

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence." - George Eliot

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own." - Aesop

"Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it." - Brian Tracy

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." - William Shakespeare

"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings." - Okakura Kakuzo

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself." - Charles de Gaulle

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences." - M. Scott Peck

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder." - Virginia Woolf

Studies show that 29% of women spend more time shopping for shoes than they do looking for a life long mate.

"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing." - Benjamin Franklin

"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points." - Knute Rockne

"What is life, but one long risk?" - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"I attribute my success to this-I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer

"Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle." Marcus Aurelius

"Live out of your imagination, not your history." - Stephen Covey

"This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full." - Clarence Day

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." - Robert E. Lee

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory we have in overcoming it." - Jean Baptiste Moliere

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

"I had confidence in my ability. You have to. If you don't, who will?" - Johnny Unitas

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way." - Robert Frost

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." Epictetus

"A promise made is a debt unpaid." - Robert W. Service

"For the real winners, there are no finish lines." - Harvey Mackay

"The more we know, the better we forgive." - Germaine de Stael

"Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The human body will heal itself, if you give it half a chance." - Andrew Weil

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert Schuller

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make their minds to be either good or evil." - Hannah Arendt

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." Aristotle

"Seize now and here the hour that is, nor trust some later day!" - Horace

"Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow." - Swedish Proverb

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." - Jack London

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot

"Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win." - Vince Lombardi

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." - Joyce Brothers

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

"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise." Montesquieu

"One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention." - Jim Rohn

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." - Brian Tracy

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..." ~ Isaac Asimov

"Observe perpetually." - Henry James

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci

"If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done." - Mike Ditka

"A promise made is a debt unpaid." - Robert W. Service

"Seek first to understand and then to be understood." - Stephen Covey

"Individuals score points, but teams win games." - Zig Ziglar

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather

"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself." - Abraham Lincoln

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail." - John Foster Dulles

"Use soft words and hard arguments." - English Proverb

"Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised."

~ Brit Hume

"When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts."

~ Bo Bennett

“All great achievements require time.” ~ Maya Angelou

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.~ Unknown

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Beware the fury of a patient man.” ~ John Dryden

“Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.” ~ Anonymous

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.” ~ Mac McCleary

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor

“Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” ~ Eknath Easwaran

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” ~ Arnold Glasgow

“He that can have patience, can have what he will.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

"An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands." - John Wooden

"No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night." - Elie Wiesel

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present." - Adlai E. Stevenson

"Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes." - Elvis Presley

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt

“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.”- Anthony Robbins

“There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.”- Josh Billings

“Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.”- Charles Caleb Colton

To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life - William Londen

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”- Spanish Proverb

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”- Albert Schweitzer

"Life gets more precious when there's less of it to waste." - Bonnie Raitte

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius

"Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves." - Epictetus

"Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last." - William Penn

“A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.”- Mother Teresa

“If you love the life you live, you will live a life of love.”- Unknown Author

“Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.”- George Bush

“I've decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. “-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Pleasing ware is half sold." - George Herbert

"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable." - Andre Gide

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." - W. Edwards Deming

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence." - Democritus

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." - George S. Patton

"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them." - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do our own selves." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"To believe that the world is only as you think it is, is stupid." - Carlos Castaneda

"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been." - George Eliot

"Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action." - Thomas Carlyle

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford

"Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people one cannot stand." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in." - Dwight L. Moody