-Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
-The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
-Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
-I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
~PLATO~
-Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
-Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
-You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
~JOHN F KENNEDY~
-And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
-If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
-Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
~MARTIN LUTHUR KING~
-We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
-The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~MARK TWAIN~
-Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
-If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.
-It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
-Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
-The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
-A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
-A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.