"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute." (G.B. Stern)

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." (Winston Churchill)

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give." (Oprah Winfrey)

"Judge me all you want, but keep the verdict to yourself." (Unknown)

"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you." (Wally 'Famous' Amos)

"Truth is beautfiul, without doubt; but so are lies." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." (Gore Vidal)

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you." (Larry Gelbart)

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to ge other people interested in you." (Dale Carnegie)

"My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted." (Steven Wright)

"The beginning is always today." (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Men, chocolate, and coffee are all better rich." (Anonymous)

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants." (A. Whitney Brown)

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer." (Muhammad Ali)

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" (Jean Cocteau)

"The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it." (Laurence J Peter)

"Never advice anyone to go to war or to marry." (Spanish Proverb)

"Love means never having to say you're sorry." (Love Story)

"...when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." (Atticus Finch - To Kill A Mockingbird)

"I'm a guy. Since when do we get anything right the first time?" (Alex Hitch Hitchens from Hitch)

"Behind every damsel is a fire breathing dragon." (Unknown)

"I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One." (Seth from City Of Angels)

"And why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up." (Thomas Wayne, Batman's father - Batman Begins)

"..all I can do now is to do whatever I can to my utmost. Regarding the impossible things, I can only do my best to replace it...nothing ever happen if I don't even believe in myself!" (a different perspective on society's view of love from 'Dear Mine')

"The major message in my life is there isn't one way to live your life, and we should not be judging if they're living it a little differently next door — many roads to Mecca..." (Hugh Hefner)

"All that is necessary for evil to happen is for good men to remain silent." (Unknown)

"Just like how 'rejection' always exists in this world...there will also be someone whose hand stretches out to me." (Fruit Basket manga)

"The boy who dreamed, gone he is, consumed by Darth Vader." (Yoda - Revenge Of The Sith)

"The wedding lasts at most two hours; it's the marriage that counts." (Unknown rabbi)

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." (Anais Nin)

"Don't blame yourself; when it comes to giving to charity, some people stop at nothing - and others give nothing." (Dear Abby)

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest." (Alexandre Dumas)

"You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." (Will Rogers)

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." (Virginia Woolf)

"Blame someone else and get on with your life." (Alan Woods)

"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things." (Norman Douglas)

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him." (Thomas Szasz)

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." (Josh Billings)

"There's no one in hell, all the devils are here." (William Shakespear)

"Marriage is like an empty bowl; it will remain empty unless you put more into it than you take out. Although it is possible to give without loving, you cannot love without giving." (A Thought for the day from Dear Abby)

"While there are those people who hurt others, there are those who live to bundle them up." (Japanese anime - Fruit Basket)

"Ever tried? Ever Failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." (Samuel Beckett)

"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands." (Alexandra Penney)

"Take your best pony and ride into your worst fear." (Unknown)

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." (Emiliano Zapata)

"What I want is what I've not got, and what I need is all around me." (Dave Matthews)

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one." (Alexandre Dumas)

"The miracle isn`t that I finished...the miracle is that I had the courage to start." (The Penguin's credo)

"It was once said that is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. This is not entirely true. It is neither better nor worse. Both hurt and both are, in their own separate ways, unbearable." (Cristoph Lamarte)

"If you try, you might fail...if you don't try you are guranteed to fail." (Chris Bannister)

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One of these is Roots; the other, Wings." (Hodding Carter)

"Never lose hope in your dreams. For without dreams, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." (Langston Hughes)

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples." (George Burns)

"The things we can do are always the things before our eyes." (Col. Mustang in Fullmetal Alchemist)

"The worst prison would be a closed heart." (Pope John Paul II)

"There never was much hope just a fool's hope." (Gendalf the Grey)

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." (George Bernard Shaw)

"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick once and you suck forever." (Anonymous)

"Even a mirror that's not supposed to lie reflects things in reverse." (A Zen Harvest)

"The trouble with real life is that there's no danger music." (Jim Carrey)

"I said to the officer who arrested me for drunk driving, 'drunk definitely, but I don't know if you could call it driving'." (Rob Lowe)

"It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bull ring." (Spanish proverb)

"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart." (Ben Crenshaw)

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will." (Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi)

"My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself." (Tommy John)

"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." (Ayn Rand)

"First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended." (Arthur Bloch)

"Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much." (Thomas Henry Huxley)

"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." (R. D. Laing)

"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when decide how to respond." (Jeffery Borenstein)

"When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value." (Thomas Alva Edison)

"Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory." (Albert Schweitzer)

"They say it can't be done, but that doesn't always work." (Casey Stengel)

"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." (Jonathan Swift)

"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." (Andy Rooney)

"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor." (Søren Kierkegaard)

"Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in." (Evan Davis)

"I do not participate in any sport that has ambulances at the bottom of the hill." (Erma Bombeck)

"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important." (George (Pen name of Mary Ann Evans) Eliot)

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." (Anatole France)

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." (Robert Frost)

"If you cannot get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential." (Patrick Murray)

"It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes." (Mary W. Little)

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." (Billie Jean King)

"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience." (Randolph Bourne)

"Give me a smart idiot before a stupid genius any day." (Sam Goldwyn)

"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular." (Robert Frost)

"Those not present are always wrong." (Destouches [Philippe Nericault])

"The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." (John Kenneth Galbraith)

"I'd stay away from Ecstasy. This is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance." (Lenny Henry)

"Enjoy yourself. If you can't enjoy yourself, enjoy somebody else."(Jack Schaefer)

"Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same life." (Aristophanes)

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up." (Mohammad Ali)

"America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks." (John Barrymore)

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." (Charles Schultz)

"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." (Gendolf the Grey - The Fellowship Of The Ring)

"One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs." (Benjamin Franklin)

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is still my own." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"Sometimes you earn more by doing the jobs that pay nothing." (Todd Ruthman)

"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper." (Errol Flynn)

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run." (Abraham Lincoln)

"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it." (Virginia Woolf)

"Learning in old age is like writing on sand; learning in youth is like engraving on stone." (Solomon Ibn Gabirol)

"Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age." (Unknown)

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." (Unknown)

"Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing." (Lirael)

"...a promise isn't something you make with your mouth. You make a promise with your heart." (Dragon of a Fallen Sun vol 1)

"A man who marries his mistress, creates a job opportunity." (Unknown)

"A happy union is not one of perfect partners, but the triumph of love over imperfections." (J. Hodges)

"Just because people have a range of emotions and thoughts...sometimes they get ecstatically happy about something and at other times ridiculously depressed, doesn't mean that there's something wrong with them." (Elliot Smith)

"Beware of those who speaks behind their mask. They lisp when they lie and laugh when you cry." (Unknown)

"When captured bird gets wiser, they will use their beaks to open the cage. They will never give up because they would like to fly again." (Naruto anime)

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." (Malcolm Forbes)

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." (E. M. Forster)

"If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it." (William Arthur Ward)

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." (Alexander Hamilton)

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell)

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." (Gandhi)

"There are two kinds of people who never amount to much; those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else." (Cyrus Curtis)

"You are no longer the master of your destiny. When you are a slave to the whims of other." (Unknown)

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." (Buddha)

"Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by." (John Sales)

"It takes a great man to be a good listener." (Calvin Coolidge)

"We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry." (English Proverb)

"A thief believes everybody steals." (E.W. Howe)

"He who angers you conquers you." (Elizabeth Kenny)

"It's always too early to quit." (Norman Vincent Pearle)

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." (Abigail Van Buren)

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." (Leo Rosten)

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." (Unknown)

"I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my poor. I am in the house, and I have the key." (Charles Fletcher Lummis)

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." (Lucille S. Harper)

"In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday." (Anonymous)

"Love is the highest form of tolerance." (Richard Burton)

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round', love is what makes the ride worthwhile." (Franklin P. Adams)

"The road to a friend's house is never long." (Danish Proverb)

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." (Tip O'Niel)

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." (Karl Marx)

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best." (Walt Whitman)

"One should always fight for a dream, no matter if it takes years to fulfill it." (Tokyo Bablyon - Clamp)

"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." (Unknown)

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." (Charlie McCarthy)

"As you grow older, you'll discover that you have two hands: One for helping yourself, the second for helping others." (Attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

"See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking." (Maya Angelou)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Martin Luther King Jr.)

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" (Abraham Lincoln)

"If you have love in your heart, you will have room in your home." (Robert Lumadue's mother)

"Gratitude is the heart's memory." (French Proverb)

"Remember, amatuers built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic." (Unknown)

"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking." (Lyndon B. Johnson)

"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room." (Blaise Pascal)

"Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." (George Patton)

"A parrot talks much but flies little." (Wilbur Wright)

"Things are only impossible until they're not." (Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek)

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." (Pablo Picasso)

"It's your future...be there!" (Commercial ad for Good Health)

"Copying from one person is plagairism, copying from many is research." (Anonymous)

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." (Thomas Jefferson)

"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege." (Unknown)

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." (Helen Keller)

"There can not be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." (Henry Kissinger)

"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you." (Kin Hubbard)

"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." (Miss Manner)

"It isn't necessary to have a relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy." (Groucho Marx)

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." (Maya Angelou)

"Enthusiasm is like having two right hands." (Elbert Hubbard)

"I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere." (Unknown)

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others." (Groucho Marx)

"Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better." (Edgar W. Howe)

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." (Abraham Lincoln)

"Ideas pull the trigger, but instincts loads the gun." (Don Marquis)

"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." (Thomas Alva Edison)

"We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear." (Voltaire)

"In the field of observation, chance favours the prepared mind." (Louis Pasteur)

"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them." (Confuscius)

"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory." (Franklin P. Jones)

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." (Thomas Carlyle)

"Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are simply rearranging their prejudices." (William James)

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." (Abraham Lincoln)

"All great truth begin as blasphemies." (George Bernard Shaw)

"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress...Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I show you a failure...Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." (Thomas Alva Edison)

"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come." (Montesquieu)

"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends." (Jacques Delille)

"A place for everything and everything in its place." (Isabella Mary Beeton)

"If you believe that dreams can come true, be prepared for the occasional nightmare too." (French Proverb)

"For fast acting relief, try slowing down." (Lily Tomlin)

"It has been my observation that people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." (Abraham Lincoln)

"Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom." (Dr. M. Scott Peck)

"I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice."(Mignon McLaughlin)

"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." (Unknown)

"There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true." (Sir Winston Churchill)

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time." (Charles M. Schulz)

"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." (Man Ray)

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" (Steven Wright)

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." (Andre Gide)

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." (Mignon McLaughlin)

"If I have seen more than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." (Sir Isaac Newton)

"Years may wrinkle the skin. Lack of enthusiasm will wrinkle the soul." (Anonymous)

"No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give." (French Proverb)

"The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you." (Morrie Schwartz)

"Focus, and the finish line is yours." (Anonymous)

"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." (John Erksine)

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." (Russell Baker)

"The Candle that burns the brightest, burns the shortest." (Unknown)

"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed." (Emerson)

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." (George E. Woodberry)

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." (Dalai Lama)

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." (William James)

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." (Benjamin Disraeli)

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." (Elbert Hubbard)

"Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'" (Robert Kennedy)

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." (Thomas Alva Edison)

"You must do the things you think you cannot do." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle." (Robert Alden)

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own." (Aesop)

"A problem is an opportunity in work clothes." (Henry J. Kaiser)

"The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorous, seen plainest when all around is dark." (Robert Crowell)

"Opportunities are like sun rise, you have to be awake to catch it." (Anonymous)

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." (Samuel Goldwyn)

"The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters." (Thomas Jefferson)

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." (George S. Patton)

"Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." (John Locke)

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." (Italian Proverb)

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." (Marilyn vos Savant)

"Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing." (Randolph Bourne)

"Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." (Abraham Lincoln)

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." (Anonymous)

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under pressure." (Plutarch)

"And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own." (Andre Malraux)

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." (William Makepeace Thackeray)

"It's never to late to be what you might have been." (George Elliot)

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." (Thomas Jefferson)

"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." (Henry Louis Mencken)

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." (Abraham Lincoln)

"What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence." (Samuel Johnson)

"Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it." (Unknown)

"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help." (Abraham Lincoln)

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Carl Sagan)

"I'll not listen to reason...Reason always means that someone else has something to say." (Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell)

"I want to seize fate by the throat." (Ludwig van Beethoven)

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." (Charles Fisher)

"Select a few people to be particularly kind to today, those you were a little harsh with yesterday." (Norman Vincent Peale)

"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." (Pablo Picasso)

"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs." (Aesop)

"Americans always try to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." (Winston Churchill)

"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it." (Unknown)

"The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." (Marcel Proust)

"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage." (Charles Luckman)

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn." (Mahatma Gandhi)

"Eyes are the windows to the soul." (Unknown)

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." (Carl Bard)

"Don't lie and you won't have to remember any." (Chinese Proverb)

"Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful." (William Shakespeare)

"I always wanted to be a procastinator, never got around to it." (Unknown)

"Sometimes angels are wingless." (Tokyo Bablyon - Clamp)

"Real riches are the riches possessed inside." (B.C. Forbes)

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore, they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." (Pearl S. Buck)

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress." (Frederick Douglass)

"Talent develop in quiet places, character in the full current of human life." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those that feel." (Horace Walpole)

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be." (Mary Sarton)

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." (Anonymous)

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

"The cards you hold in the game of life means very little - it's the way you play them that counts." (Anonymous)

"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." (Robert Frost)

"We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up thinking as we have lived." (Paul Bourget)

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives." (From the movie Braveheart)

"Few things are harder to put with than a good example." (Mark Twain)

"If you're not feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it." (Anonymous)

"I'm not bound to please thee with my answer." (William Shakespeare)

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." (Anonymous)

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds." (Charles Lamb)

"You can't shake hands with a clench fist." (Indira Gandhi)

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." (Abraham Lincoln)

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom a person has." (Anita Brookner)

"Since we cannot know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything." (Blaise Pascal)

"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it." (Georges Duhamel)

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy." (Bette Davis)

"An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind." (Saint Bonaventure)

"One kind word can warm three winter months." (Japanese Proverb)

"I have a dream, that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!" (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"A thousand words are worth a picture." (Unknown)

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow." (Chinese Proverb)

"There is nothing so strong or safe, in any emergency of life, as simple truth." (Charles Dickens)

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." (Honore de Balzac)

"Life is a horizontal fall." (Jean Cocteau)

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." (Kim Hubbard)

"There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." (Proverb)

"It is always best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." (Jerome K. Jerome)

"Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful." (John Powell)

"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuses is there for his continuance." (Frank Moore Colby)

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." (Peter Marshall)

"If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn." (Andrew V. Mason)

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." (Malcolm X)

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right." (Hannah Whitall Smith)

"Keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them." (Anonymous)

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." (Abraham Lincoln)

"He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool." (Charles Caleb Colton)

"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." (Erich Fromm)

"Opportunities are never lost. The other fellow takes those you miss." (Anonymous)

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Forever is a long time, but not as long as it was yesterday." (Dennis H'Orgnies)

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." (Benjamin Mays)

"What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better." (Wendell Phillips)

"You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time you must make it." (Charles Buxton)

"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance." (William Shakespeare)

"I feel the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." (Jonas Salk)

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the star." (Les Brown)

"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." (Unknown)

"If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time." (Nadine Stair)

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." (Doug Floyd)

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world." (Mohammed)

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." (Beverly Sills)

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." (Mary Harris "Mother" Jones)

"If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it." (Fred Allen)

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." (Chinese proverb)

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." (J. Danforth Quayle)

"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory." (Georges Duhamel)

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." (Truman Capote)

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes." (Willa Cather)

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." (Henry David Thoreau)

"The prepetual obstacle to human advancement is custom." (John Stuart Mill)

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." (Chinese proverb)

"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television." (Unknown)

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." (Eden Phillpotts)

"Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." (Dinah Shore)

"Merit begets confidence, confidence begets enthusiasm, enthusiasm conquers the world." (Walter H. Cottingham)

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein)

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"The man or woman of enthusiastic trend always exercises a magnetic influence over those with whom he or she comes in contact." (H. Addington Bruce)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." (Aristotle)

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." (Helen Keller)

"A seed needs time, a little rain, and a little sun to become a great tree." (From the movie A Bug's Life)

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." (James Branch Cabell)

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Unknown)

"A witty saying proves nothing." (Voltaire)

"I've heard snappier comebacks from a bowl of Rice Krispies." (Charlese Emerson Winchester III)

"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others." (Johnathan Winters)

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." (Willy Wonka)

"Only the shallow know themselves." (Oscar Wilde)

"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself." (John MacNaughton)

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." (Peter Marshall)

"To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing." (Author Unknown)

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius." (Oscar Wilde)

"You may delay, but time will not." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." (John F. Kennedy)

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." (Chinese proverb)

"Honor is like a match, you can use it only once." (Marcel Pagnol)

"It's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men." (Mae West)

"Those who suffer much become very bitter or very gentle." (William James Durant)

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." (Mother Teresa)

"Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day." (French proverb)

"The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid." (Dale Carnegie)

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." (Yogi Berra)

"Age doesn't always bring wisdom, sometimes age comes alone." (Unknown)

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." (Dutch proverb)

"The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but their failures." (Justice Earl Warren)

"When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." (Indian Proverb)

"The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year." (Samuel Johnson)

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent Van Gogh)

"Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks." (Phillip Brooks)

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." (Rene Descartes)

"Sucess always occurs in private; failure in full view." (Anonymous)

"The palest ink is better than the best memory." (Chinese proverb)

"An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country." (Sir Henry Wotton)

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." (Unknown)

"The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." (Henry Ford)

"Never mistake motion for action." (Ernest Hemmingway)

"I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact." (Diane Sawyer)

"Divorce is the sacrament of adultery." (French Proverb)

"Children ask better questions than do adults. 'May I have a cookie?' 'Why is the sky blue?' 'What does a cow say?' are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than 'Where's your manuscript?' 'Why haven't you called?' and 'Who's your lawyer?'" (Fran Lebowitz)

"The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them be good at taking orders." (Linda Fest)

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." (Anonymous)

"To generalize is to be an idiot." (William Blake)

"Whoever said that talk was cheap never hired a lawyer." (Wayne Mackey)

"When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear." (Native American Saying)

"If you ever need anything, please don't hesitate to ask someone else first." (Nirvana)

"You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much." (James Barnes)

"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." (Walter Kerr)

"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears." (Robert W. Sarnoff)

"Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them." (Margaret Mitchell)

"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable." (Lord Chesterfield)

"He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; he who loses faith, loses all." (Anonymous)

"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. She drinks right out of the bottle." (Henny Youngman)

"To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior'." (Rita Rudner)

"Insanity is big business. And vice versa." (Robyn Hitchcock)

"Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up." (Voltaire)

"All things are difficult before they are easy." (Thomas Fuller)

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." (William Feather)

"I wouldn't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk as me." (Robert Benchley)

"There's a new dictionary for masochists. It has all the words but they're not in alphabetical order." (Frank Tyger)

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection." (Sidney Poitier)

"Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." (Anonymous)

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'" (Shirley Chisholm)

"Good character is the quality that makes one dependable whether being watched or not." (Franklin P. Adams)

"A trout in the pot is worth two salmon in the sea." (Irish Proverb)

"The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it." (Unknown)

"The strong and the weak cannot keep company." (Aesop)

"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialect between the two." (Octavio Paz)

"The end must justify the mean." (Matthew Prior)

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and worst thing you can do is nothing." (Theodore Reoosevelt)

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." (Anonymous)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon)

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." (Henry Ward Beecher)

"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it." (Sir William Osler)

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." (Ella Fitzgerald)

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"There is less in this than meets the eyes." (Tallulah Brockman Bankhead)

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty." (Albert Einstein)

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with out thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." (Buddha)

"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." (Leonardo Da Vinci)

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"We are what we pretend to be." (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." (Margaret Thatcher)

"Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of." (Johnny Bench)

"Sarcasm should not be like a saw, but a sword; it should cut, and not mangle." (Lord Francis Jeffrey)

"In the last resort, nothing is ridiculous except the fear of being so." (Henri Fauconnier)

"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend." (Abraham Lincoln)

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"Of all the days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted." (Anonymous)

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." (Earl Wilson)

"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"I'm not in the business of making steel. I'm in the business of making men. They make steel." (Andrew Carnegie)

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts." (Millard Fuller)

"A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks that he becomes." (Mohandas K. Gandhi)

"A good head and a good heart are always a formindable combination." (Nelson Mandela)

"Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best." (Bob Talbert)

"It's not failure, but low aim is crime." (Lowell)

"If you believe everything you read, better not read." (Japanese proverb)

"If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it." (William A. Orton)

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." (Charles Kingsley)

"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others." (Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld)

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." (Anonymous)

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." (Buddha)

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" (Sydney Harris)

"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him." (Simone Weil)

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." (Japanese proverb)

"It's not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better." (Alberta Lee Cox)

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Mohandis K. Gandhi)

"He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good." (Jewish proverb)

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." (Elbert Hubbard)

"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)

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith." (Plato)

"To live without loving is not really to live." (Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)

"A smiling face is half the meal." (Latvian proverb)

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision." (Gary Collins)

"If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for." (Vaclav Havel)

"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed." (Nietzche)

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." (Sam Levenson)

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness." (Dante Alighieri)

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up." (Anonymous)

"Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." (Jewish proverb)

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." (Mark Twain)

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." (William Arthur Ward)

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply." (Josh Billings)

"Stress is like an iceberg. We can see one-eighth of it above, but what about what's below?" (Patrice O'Connor)

"Fear makes us feel our humanity." (Benjamin Disraeli)

"Humility comes from understanding that the obstacles in front of you are not going to go away." (Sarah Ferguson)

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." (American Indian Proverb)

"An honest answer can get you into a lot of trouble." (Anonymous)

"A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer." (Amanda Grier)

"He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief." (Thomas Fuller)

"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." (Frank Buchman)

"Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it." (Ivan Turgenev)

"Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." (Hans Christian Anderson)

"They never fail who die in a great cause." (Lord Byron)

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." (Pearl S. Buck)

"I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way." (Jason Feinburg)

"A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words." (Samuel Butler)

"Live out of your imagination, not your history." (Stephen Covey)

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." (General H. Norman Schwarzkopf)

"To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." (Benjamin Disraeli)

"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he things he has." (Alphonse Karr)

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics." (Mark Twain)

"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got." (Sophia Loren)

"Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'" (Samuel Johnson)

"Good words are worth much, and cost little." (George Herbert)

"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better." (Barbarba Pletcher)

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." (Anonymous)

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." (Abraham Lincoln )

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." (Sydney J. Harris)

"The devil is an optimist if he things he can make people meaner." (Anonymous)

"One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time." (Nancy Astor)

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." (Josh Billings)

"I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simple try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go." (Frank Bettger)

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." (Walter Elliot)

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." (George Santayana)

"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." (Norm Papernick)

"Home is where the house is." (Anonymous)

"An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible." (Unknown)

"In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow." (Jonathan Cainer)

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." (Helen Keller)

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." (Will Roger)

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." (JD Salinger)

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way." (Carl Sandburg)

"Ignorance is the mother of fear." (Harry Homes)

"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it." (Charles Schultz)

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." (Jonathan Swift)

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong." (Thomas Szasz)

"All power corrupts, but we need the electricity." (Unknown)

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works." (William Strong)

"The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on." (Mary Wollstonecraft)

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." (Abraham Lincoln)

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." (Buddha)

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." (Spanish proverb)

"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic." (Dan Rather)

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." (Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill)

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else." (Will Roger)

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." (Hector Hugh Munro)

"If you can dream it, you can do it." (Walt Disney)

"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us." (Baronne Anne Germaine Necker de Stael)

"Home is the place where when you have to go there, they have to take you in." (Robert Frost)

"Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently." (Henry Ford)

"Think of three Things: whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." (Robert Frost)

"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to." (Sondra Anice Barnes)

"Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success." (David O. McKay)

"A wise man will make more opportunites than he finds." (Francis Bacon)

"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish)

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." (Vernor Sanders Law)

"Get busy living, or get busy dying. Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free." (From the movie: The Shawshank Redemption)

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." (Ben Franklin)

"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise." (John Henry Cardinal Newman)

"So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me." (Albert Einstein)

"Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." (Robert Orben)

"I consider chaos a gift." (Septima Clark)

"Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done." (Sam Ewing)

"You are either part of the solution or part of the problem." (Eldridge Cleaver)

"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." (Laurence J. Peter)

"That was all wrong because not all was right." (George Crabbe)

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." (Jean-Paul Sartre)

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." (Erica Jong)

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." (Aristotle)

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been." (Mark Twain)

"Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else." (William Rotsler)

"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself." (Beryl Markham)

"Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking." (Vincent McNabb)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney)

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." (Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill)

"I have not yet begun to fight!" (John Paul Jones)

"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight." (Thomas Carlyle)

"Nothing is really lost. It's just where it doesn't belong." (Suzanne Mueller)

"Houses, like people, have personalities, and like the personalities of people they are partly molded by all that has happened to them." (Louis Bromfield)

"Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes." (Unknown)

"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." (Benjamin Franklin)

"I am a Marxist - of the Groucho tendency." (French slogan)

"You must do the things you think you cannot do." (Eleanor [Anna] Roosevelt)

"I have noticed that people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them." (E.V. Lucas)

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." (Don Herold)

"Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness." (Deborah Norville)

"Judge your neighbor by his best moments, not his worst." (Bishop Fulton J. Sheen)

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." (Isadora Duncan)

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." (Harvey Fierstein)

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." (Confucius)

"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence." (Will Cuppy)

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." (Anonymous)

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others." (Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill)

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare." (Dale Carnegie)

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." (Abraham Lincoln)

"The expert at anything was once a beginner." (Hayes)

"Have you ever noticed..anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" (George Carlin)

"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner." (English Proverb)

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." (Anonymous)

"When the doors of perception are cleansed, everything appears as it truly is - infinite." (William Blake)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." (Ingrid Bergman)

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"It's funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept something but the best, you very often get it." (W. Somerset Maugham)

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." (Sir Arthur Wing Pinero)

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." (Albert Einstein)

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail." (Henry David Thoreau)

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." (Leo Tolstoy)

"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable." (Anonymous)

"Our life is what our thoughts make of it." (Marcus Aurelius)

"Examine what is said, not him who speaks." (Arabian proverb)

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." (Harry Firestone)

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." (Lyndon B. Johnson)

"The sweetest of all sounds is praise." (Xenophon)

"Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these...it might have been." (John Greenleaf Whittier)

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." (Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill)

"He is able who thinks he is able." (Buddha)

"Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools talk because they have to say something." (Plato)

"Everybody is ignorant, only at different subjects." (Will Rogers)

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." (Samuel Johnson)

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

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." (Anonymous)

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse." (Thomas Szasz)

"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one." (Archibald Wavell)

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." (Mark Twain)

"If I had my life to live again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." (Tallulah Bankhead)

"There is no education like diversity." (Benjamin Disraeli)

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw)

"Faith goes up the stairs that love builds and looks out windows which hope has opened." (C.H. Spurgeon)

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf)

"We are all designed for a specific purpose; we all have something for which each of us, and each of us alone, is responsible." (Naomi Stephan)

"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." (Dudley Field Malone)

"A teacher affects eternity: He can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry Adams)

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection." (Thomas Paine)

"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him." (George Bernard Shaw)

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give." (Eleanor [Anna] Roosevelt)

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." (Sydney J. Harris)

"Shape the idea in your mind, and it will eventually come to life." (Fortune cookie)

"We do not need more knowledge, we need more character." (Calvin Coolidge)

"Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?" (Anonymous)

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." (John F. Kennedy)

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...the hand is the cutting edge of the mind." (Jacob Bronowski)

"Hope is the denial of reality." (Anonymous)

"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg." (Hans Christian Andersen)

"I'm not smart enough to lie." (Ronald Reagan)

"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts." (Aldo Leopold)

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." (Robert Frost)

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." (Winnie the Pooh)

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." (Charles Caleb Colton)

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." (Unknown)

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." (Albert Camus)

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." (Unknown)

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." (Unknown)

"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Nigerian Proverb)

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts, but of values." (William Ralph Inge)

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give- which is everything." (Anonymous)

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfication is death." (George Bernard Shaw)

"To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all." (Robert Brault)

"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." (Anonymous)

"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by." (Lucille Ball)

"I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards." (Henry Youngman)

"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." (Yoda from the movie: The Empire Strikes Back)

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." (Max L. Forman)

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." (Douglas Adam)

"Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training." (Anna Freud)

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." (Japanese Proverb)

"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week." (William Dean Howells)

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." (Eleanor [Anna] Roosevelt )

"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." (E. V. Lucas)

"If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us." (Francis Bacon)

"If you don't have the best of everything, make the best of everything that you have." (Anonymous)

"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." (Caskie Stinnet)

"Now is not time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." (Ernest Hemingway)

"Only with the heart can we know and understand the secrets of the soul." (Dick Innes)

"When you are a child, you eat and then you play. When you are a young adult, you play and then you eat. When you are old, eating is playing, and when you are very, very old, you play with your food." (David Brenner)

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." (Anais Nin)

"There is no knowledge that is not power." (From the movie: Mortal Kombat 3)

"Faith goes up the stairs that love builds and looks out windows which hope has opened." (C.H. Spurgeon)

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." (Anonymous)

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." (Pablo Picasso)

"Cheer up, the worst is yet to come." (Philander Johnson)

"A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers." (Central African Proverb)

"The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." (Mark Twain)

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." (Charles Dickens)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." (Eleanor [Anna] Roosevelt)

"A good laugh and a long sleep are two of the best cures." (Irish proverb)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." (Albert Einstein)

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." (Helen Keller)

"Success lies not in being the best, but in doing your best." (Anonymous)

"He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb)

"This is the foundation of success 9 times out of 10 - having confidence in yourself and applying yourself with all your might to your work." (Thomas E.Wilson)

"You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from a knowledge of duty faithfully performed." (General Robert E. Lee)

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." (Henry Van Dyke)

"Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry." (George Ada)

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." (Douglas Adams)

"Hell is other people." (Jean Paul Sartre)

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." (Abraham Lincoln)

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (Douglas Adams)

"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence." (Henry Adams)

"Believe in yourself and anything is possible." (Unknown)

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." (Bill Cosby)

"80% of success is showing up." (Woody Allen)

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." (Farmer's Almanac)

"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom." (Laurie Anderson)

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better." (Laurie Anderson)

"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." (Anonymous)

"Education is so involved with computers these days, I wonder who is going to teach students to work with their brains." (Prairie Rambler)

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." (Edmund Burke)

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." (Anonymous)

"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5 X 11 inch paper cannot be understood." (Mark Ardis)

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." (Isaac Asimov)

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." (Walter Bagehot)

"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down." (Russell Baker)

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." (Lucille Ball)

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it." (Tallulah Bankhead)

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable." (Anonymous)

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value." (Thomas Paine)

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai)

"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it." (Anonymous)

"Life is a long lesson in humility." (James M. Barrie)

"Variety is the soul of pleasure." (Aphra Behn)

"The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose." (Heda Bejar)

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him." (Robert Benchley)

"You can observe a lot by just watching." (Berra's Law)

"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!" (Tom Lehrer)

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18." (Albert Einstein)

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." (Abraham Lincoln)

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." (Theodore Roosevelt)

"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are." (Anonymous)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." (Albert Einstein)

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." (Chinese Proverb)

"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others." (Sir Winston Churchill)

"A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs." (Unknown)

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they out to be done." (Josh Billings)

"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone." (Lady Stella Reading)

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." (Peter Drucker)

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." (Albert Einstein)

"Headaches are all in your mind." (Anonymous)

"The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel." (From the series Taxi)

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." (Mark Twain)

"I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path." (Unknown)

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar... I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar." (Unknown)

"Every man loves what he is good at." (Thomas Shadwell)

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." (Booker T. Washington)

"A project is a problem scheduled to be solved." (Dr JM Juran)

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is the future, today is a gift that's why it's called the present." (Anonymous)

"The philosphers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." (Karl Marx)

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." (Mark Twain)

"Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance." (Author Unknown)

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable." (Wendy Wasserstein)

"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice." (Anonymous)

"Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted." (Chinese Proverb)

"Fear is being stuck in heavy traffic. You just had two cups of coffee and a bran muffin." (John Mendoza)

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." (Henry David Thoreau)

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

"I am not a has-been. I am a will be." (Lauren Bacall)

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." (Michael Jordan)

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." (Edmund Hillary)

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go." (Dr. Seuss)

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." (Peter T. Mcintyre)

"Put your future in good hands - your own." (Unknown)

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

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." (Washington Irving)

"We need greater virtues to bear good fortune than bad." (Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)

"A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it." (Anonymous)

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." (Mark Twain)

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." (Sun Tzu)

"Beware the wrath of a quiet man." (Chinese Proverb)

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." (Benjamin Disraeli)

"Any fool can make a rule." (Henry David Thoreau)

"Going to church doesn't make you a better person any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic." (Clipping from Ann Landers)

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." (Mark Twain)

"Too many folks go through life running from something that isn't after them." (Anonymous)

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." (Swedish Proverb)

"Don't waste a $1000.00 worth of emotion over a 5 cent triviality." (Anonymous)

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools." (Marshall McLuhan)

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." (Mark Twain)

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." (Unknown)

"It is easier to stay out than get out." (Mark Twain)

"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet." (African Proverb)

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." (Victor Hugo)

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." (Mark Twain)

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision." (Theodore Hesburgh)

"Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way." (Unknown)

"One should count each day a separate life." (Seneca)

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." (Mark Twain)

"Nothing you do with your children is ever wasted." (Garrison Kellor)

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." (Author C. Clarke)

"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand." (Confucius)

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." (Oscar Wilde)

"We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived." (Tracy Chapman)

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." (Anonymous)

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." (George Bernard Shaw)

"Life consists of problems, living is solving those problems." (Unknown)

"You get the answers for the questions that you ask." (Dr. JM Juran)

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." (Henry Louis Mencken)

"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." (Author C. Clarke)

"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." (Noël Coward)

"Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice." (Unknown)

"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." (Winston Churchill)

"There are times when silence has the loudest voice." (Leroy Brownlow)

"No man is ever old enough to know better." (Holbrook Jackson)

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." (Javan)

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." (Peter T. McIntyre)

"As long as you're going to think anyway, think big." (Donald Trump)

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." (Babe Ruth)

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." (William Inge)

"Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay." (Josh Billings)

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." (William James)

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." (Winston Churchill)

"Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish." (Julius Caesar)

"Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it." (Charles H. Burr)

"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day." (Norman Douglas)

"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity." (Douglas MacArthur)

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle." (Paulo Coelho)

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." (Gandhi)

"Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth." (Benjamin Disraeli)

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves." (Eric Hoffer)

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." (Mahatma Gandhi)

"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome." (Jean Giraudoux)

"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." (Unknown)

"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present." (Roger Babson)

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson)

"I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck." (Graffiti in Los Angeles)

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." (Will Rogers)

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." (Thomas Paine)

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it." (Anne Bancroft)

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." (Burton Hill)

"The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going." (Anonymous)

"Always be nice to people on your way up. Because you will meet the same people on the way down." (Wilson Mizner)

"Nothing is swifter than rumor." (Horace)

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." (David Broome)

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

"Don't hate yourself in the morning. Sleep 'til noon." (Unknown)

"Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools." (Gene Brown)

"Love your enemies - it will drive them nuts." (Eleanor Doan)

"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you." (Elisabeth Marbury)

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." (Lily Tomlin)

"Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it." (Hardy D. Jackson)

"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too." (Henry Louis Mencken)

"Power is the great aphrodesiac." (Henry Kissinger)

"Don't tell them what you did in the past; tell them what you are going to do in the future." (Stan Musial)

"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." (Antonio Smith)

"Do not follow where the path my lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." (George Bernard Shaw)

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." (Phyllis Diller)

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more." (Seneca)

"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot." (Steven Wright)

"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there." (Colonel Sanders)

"Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?" (Thomas Wolfe)

"It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple." (Rabindranath Tagore)

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue." (Francis Bacon)

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." (Scottish Proverb)

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." (Leo Rosten)

"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any." (Katharine Whitehorn)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm." (Audrey Hepburn)

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron." (George Carlin)

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity." (Albert Einstein)

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts." (Benjamin Disraeli)

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself." (Winston Churchill)

"All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't take it away from yourself." (Michael Creichton - Lost World)

"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time." (Willy Tyler)

"The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men." (Henry David Thoreau)

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." (Alfred North Whitehead)

"Action speaks louder than words." (Unknown)

"Two people can no longer remain friends if they refuse to forgive each other's little failings." (Lucy Hutchinson)

"All things good to know are difficult to learn." (Greek Proverb)

"After dark all cats are leopards." (Zuni)

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." (William James)

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." (Swedish Proverb)

"Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They have experienced pain and bought jewelry." (Rita Rudner)

"There are more fools in the world than there are people." (Heinrich Heine)

"We live. We die. We live to die. If we don't want to die, then what's the point of living?" (Unkown)

"Trust in God but lock your car." (Ben Stephen)

"All sunshine makes the desert." (Arab Proverb)

"For some people, their sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others." (Unknown)

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." (Malcolm S. Forbes)

"Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised how many re-enlist." (James Garner)

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." (Immanuel Kant)

"If you ain't makin' waves, you ain't thinkin' hard enough!" (Unknown)

"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected." (Swedish Proverb)

"Doust thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." (John F. Kennedy)

"A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us." (O.S. Marden)

"The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the time you spend with him." (Rita Rudner)

"Look for the light behind every shadow." (Robert Schuler)

"Summer vacation is a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid." (Unknown)

"Bad is never good until worse happens." (Danish Proverb)

"Some people make the world special by just being in it." (Anonymous)

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." (Marlene Dietrich)

"What good does it do for a man to have ears that can hear for a thousand miles, if he cannot listen to the whispers of his own heart?" (Gabe - Night Shift)

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive." (O. A. Battista)

"You should live life to its fullest and never look back on the past." (Unknown)

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." (Thomas Henry Huxley)

"Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat." (Bill Musselman)

"Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of range before it's understood." (Unknown)

"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep." (Arab Proverb)

"I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, not from our words, that our religion must be judged." (Thomas Jefferson)

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." (Wayne Dyer)

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" (WC Fields)

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"It is true that I am only one, but I am one. And the fact that I cannot do everything will not pervent me from doing what I can do." (Unknown)

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." (Vincent van Gogh)

"Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film." (Unknown)

"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence." (Spanish Proverb)

"The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind." (John Allston)

"If you can't convice them, confuse them." (Unknown)

"A half-truth is a whole lie." (Jewish Proverb)

"Leadership is like a tea bag - You only find out how strong you are when you are in hot water." (Steve Downe)

"For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain." (Unknown)

"People only see what they are prepared to see." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"To do is to be -(Descares). To be is to do -(Voltaire). Do be do be do -(Frank Sinatra)"

"Horn broken. Watch for finger." (Unknown)

"A life’s worth, in the end, isn’t measured in hours, or dollars. It’s measured by the amount of love exchanged along the way." (Douglas C. Means)

"If you don't like the news, go out and make some." (Unknown)

"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." (Deepak Chopra)

"A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; A woman loses hers after four kisses." (H.L. Mencken)

"Time is the best teacher; Unfortunately it kills all its students." (Unknown)

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." (Jesse Jackson)

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." (Richard Bach)

"Wisdom begins in wonder." (Socrates)

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot." (Unknown)

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." (Antoine De Saint-Exupery)

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." (Anonymous)

"The journey is the reward." (Taoism)

"You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light." (Hope MacDonald)

"To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction." (Antoine de Saint)

"Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill." (Unknown)

"Love is not to be with someone, Love is to be with someone forever." (Fauzia Malika Hussain)

"The road to success may be just around the corner. Wouldn't you be dismayed to realize that it was right in front of you, and you had stopped before you reached it?" (Dear Abby)

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." (Lao-Tzu)

"How can I miss you if you won't go away?" (Unknown)

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." (Buddha)

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." (William Shakespeare)

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." (David Lloyd George)

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." (Frank Herbert)

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience." (Unknown)

"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." (Joan Borysenko)

""Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." (The Godfather II)

"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." (Ursula K. LeGuin)

"One thing you can't recycle is wasted time." (Anonymous)

"Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous felling to the cooling influences of the world." (Thomas Guthrie)

"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." (Thomas H. Huxley)

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." (Enjamin Disraeli)

"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him." (H. Mathews)

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." (Albert Einstein)

"You ask me why I do not write something...I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results." (Florence Nightingale)

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." (Jean Nidetch)

"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners." (Johnny Carson)

"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to." (Hansell B. Duckett)

"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." (P. B. Medawar)

"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides." (George Sand)

"A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life." (Rev Edward A. Malloy)

"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 Brayan)

"Never get into an argument with a preacher or a newspaper; the preacher always calls on heaven as witness that he is right, and the newspaper always has the last word with its readers." (Sen. Hugh Scott)

"The surest way to trip yourself up is to keep looking over your shoulder." (Dear Abby)

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." (Harrison Ford)

"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty." (Seneca)