"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them."

Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."

Colin Powell (1937 - )

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."

Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

Nelson Mandela (1918 - )

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic."

David Russell (1958- )

"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Ben Stein (1944- )

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."

Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

"If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."

Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."

Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900)

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you."

Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."

James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust."

E. B. White (1899 - 1985)

"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)