"Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go."

Sylvia Robinson (1936- )

"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."

Peggy Noonan (1950 - )

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."

Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)

"The first duty of love is to listen."

Paul Tillich (1886-1965)

"The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine."

Marth Beck (1962- )

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."

J. K. Rowling (1965- )

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

e e cummings (1894 - 1962)

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

Nelson Mandela (1918 - )

"You never find yourself until you face the truth."

Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)

"Sit loosely in the saddle of life."

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

"The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)

"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."

Edward Thorndike (1874-1949)

"What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you."

Seneca (ca. 4 BC–AD 65)

"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."

Dick Cavett (1936 - )

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice"

George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

"Action is the antidote to despair."

Joan Baez (1941- )

"Choose to experience peace rather than conflict."

Gerald. G. Jampolsky (19?? - )

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Better to be happy than wise."

John Heywood (1497-1580)

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool."

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler (1928 - )

"Never spend your money before you have it."

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

"I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)

"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."

Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - )