"We need men who can dream of things that never were."

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."

Marilyn Manson (1969 - )

"Never spend your money before you have it."

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

"If someone offers you a gift and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks."

Steve Pavlina (1972- )

"The way we see the problem is the problem."

Stephen Covey (1932- )

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

Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

"The body says what words cannot."

Martha Graham (1894-1991)

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."

Dave Barry (1947 - )

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."

Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

"The self is not ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."

John Dewey (1859-1952)

"My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

Miles Davis (1926-1991)

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

Sophocles (495 BC - 406 BC)

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

Colin Powell (1937- )

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

Jack London (1876-1916)

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."

Henry Winkler (1945- )

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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

Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself."

Liberace (1919 - 1987)

"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)

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."

Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988),

"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."

John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)

"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well."

Dan Rather (1931 - )

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."

Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)

"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."

Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)