"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)

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

"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)

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

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

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs."

Joan Didion (1934 - )

"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."

Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

"The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn."

James Allen (1864-1912)

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

Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)

"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

"I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success."

Michael Jordan (1963 - )

"We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try."

Tom Clancy (1947 - )

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."

George Lucas (1944 - )

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be
fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

John Barth (1930 - )

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

"Dare to be yourself."

Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

Al Franken (1951- )

"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."

Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."

Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."

Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)

"There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'"

Lee Iacocca (1924 - )

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."

Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death."

Lyman Beecher (1775 - 1863)

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."

Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

Maya Angelou (1928 - )

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.:

George Washington (1732 - 1799)

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."

David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

J. K. Rowling (1965- )

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."

Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)

"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."

Alice Walker (1944 - )

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)

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

George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content."

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

“There is no education like adversity.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)

"The things you own end up owning you."

Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )

"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)

"The best way out is always through."

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

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

William James (1842 - 1910)

"Man is what he believes."

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

"Security is a kind of death."

Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)

"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."

Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.:

Gotama Buddha (circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE)

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

Umberto Eco (1932 - )

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."

James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious."

Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

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

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness."

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

"We only know of one duty, and that is to love."

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

"Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck (1962- )

"He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."

Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."

Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)

"What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you."

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

"Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living."

Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )

"It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it."

Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870)

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being."

Jane Wyman (1914 - )

"Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power."

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself."

Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

Rodin (1840 - 1917)

"The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end."

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)

"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."

Bill Cosby (1937 - )

"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)

"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)

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters."

Margaret Peters (1936- )

"Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love."

Francois de Fenelon (1651-1715)

"One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it."

Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

"Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about."

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, (1998)

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think that you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Bob Dylan (1941- )

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Thomas A. Edison ( 1847-1931)

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)

"Nothing in life is promised except death."

Kanye West (1977- )

"Don't go around saying that the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

Scott Adams (1956- )

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

"That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

"The beginning is always today."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)

"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words."

Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928- )

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."

Judy Garland (1922 - 1969)

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."

John Wesley (1703 - 1791)

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."

Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."

Golda Meir (1898-1978)

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people."

Victor Borge (1909-2000)

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

Theophrastus (370 — about 285 BC )

"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 - )

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it."

L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942)

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomes Edison (1847-1931)

"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate."

George Burns (1896-1996)

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

Woody Allen (1935- )

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"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)

"Our envy of others devours us most of all."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )

"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"You always pass failure on the way to success."

Mickey Rooney (1920- )

"Believe in something larger than yourself."

Barbara Bush (1925- )

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."

David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)

"The good die first."

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"It takes two to make peace."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace."

Geraldine Ferraro (1935- )

"Your only obligation in this life is to be true to yourself."

Richard Bach (1936- )

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

"Soul appears when we make room for it."

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

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

Janet Lane (1978- )

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven."

John Milton (1608-1674)

"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child."

Ron Wild (19?? - )

"If you don't run your own life, someone else will."

John Atkinson (19?? - )

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments."

Rose Kennedy (1890-1995)

"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."

Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974)

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes."

James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - )

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"The best thing to spend on your children is your time."

Louise Hart (19?? - )

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

Charles Schulz (1922 - 2000)

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

Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."

D. Elton Trueblood (1900-1904)

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

"Patience is the art of hoping."

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747)

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."

Doris Mortman ( 19?? - )

"We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it."

Eric Hoffer (1902-1985)

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."

Confucious (551 BC - 479 BC)

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."

Jimmy Carter (1924 - )

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)

"Though we travel the world over looking for the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up."

Jesse Jackson (1941- )

"One word frees us of all of the weight and pain of life: that word is LOVE."

Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

Benjamin Spock (1903 - 1998)

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"

Joe Namath (1943- )

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

"Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.
If you can dream it, you can make it so."

Belva Davis (1932- )

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."

Michael J. Fox (1961 - )

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

"If you rest, you rust."

Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."

Ken Keyes, Jr. (1921-1995)

"We are the choices we make."

Meryl Streep (1949- )

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

Jack London (1876 - 1916)

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."

John Churton Collins (1848-1908)

"I was not afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure."

Anne Baxter (1923-1985)

"All dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."

Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."

Alice Walker (1944- )

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

"Nothing is worse than active ignorance."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

"There are tones of voices that mean more than words."

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus