"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972),

"We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Voltaire (1694- 1778)

"Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy (18258-1910)

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

"...as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Marianne Williamson (1952- )

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

Paul Harvey Aurandt (1918- )

"Our lives teach us who we are."

Salman Rushdie (1947 - )

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Benjamin Disreali (1804-1881)

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."

Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)

"The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

Leo Buscaglia (1925 - )

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."

William Gibson (1948- )

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us."

Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

"Someone's boring me. I think it's me."

Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)

"Enquire not what boils in another's pot."

Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

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

H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."

Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

Carrie Fischer (1956- )

"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."

Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)

"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life."

Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)