The reason the grass is always greener on the other side is because you're so busy looking at their grass, you forget to water your own.

"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."

Life is like a tug-a-war, one jerk after another.

The mind is like a parachute, it works much better when it's open.

It's better to let people think your an idiot then to open your mouth and prove it

"God created men first, because you always make a rough draft before a masterpiece!"

"Best friends are like four-leaf clovers: hard to find but lucky to have."

"It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding some one to catch you."

"Love is to think about some one else more times in a day than you think about yourself."

You Don't Love a woman becuase she is beatiful, but she is beatiful becuase you love her

You Shall Know The Truth and The Truth Shall Make you mad.

The Only way to have a friend is to be one.

Friendship that can cease has never been real

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

We never no the worth of water until the well is dry.

An injury is much sooner forgotten then an insult.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consect.

The only real mistake is the one in wich we learn nothing.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Follow your heart wherever it takes you and be happy. Life is brief and very fragile, and only loaned to us for a while. Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen."

Fear less hope more whine less breath more talk less say more hate less love more and all the good things are yours.

Today is a gift. That's why it's called "the present".

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

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.

"Forgive your enemies but never forget their names"

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

" If you aim for nothing, you're sure to hit it"

"iNSANiTY--A PERFECTLY RATiONAL ADJUSTMENT TO AN iNSANE WORLD."

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

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

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."

"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."

"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become."

"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."

"If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it."

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."

"A will finds a way."

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

"She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world."

"Every exit is an entry somewhere."

"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

"What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?"

"No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give."

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

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

"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me."

"Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium."

"Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand."

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."

"Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window."

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

"I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your pleased too no,
Its letter perfect in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew."

"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."

"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little."

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."

"Don't steal. The government hates competition."

"Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it."

"We are the people our parents warned us about."

"A thief believes everybody steals."

"He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead."

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

"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."

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

"I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me."

"If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim."

"I have a dream, that my four little 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!"

"I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."

"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."

"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."

"The years teach much which the days never knew."

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

"I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time."

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."

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

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."

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

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."

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

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

"If you can't return a favor, pass it on."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

"After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world."

"They're only truly great who are truly good."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."

"Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best."

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

"Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters."

"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success."

"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose."

"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."

"The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave."

"He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others."

"To change and to change for the better are two different things."

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

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

"Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community."

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."

"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."

"Destiny is not a 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."

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

"He is able who thinks he is able."

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

"He who angers you conquers you."

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

"Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it."

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."

"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."

"Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water."

"The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going."

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

"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."

"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

"It's always too early to quit."

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

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"To do two things at once is to do neither."

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

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."

"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing."

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."

"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

"People only see what they are prepared to see."

"I wish they would only take me as I am."

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees."

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself."

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you."

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

"Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing."

"Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."

"...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..."

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

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

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

"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."

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

"History is a vast early warning system."

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way."

"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up."

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!"

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure."

"'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them."

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him."

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

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

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity."

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."

"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

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

"Nobody ever died of laughter."

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."

"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

"The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously."

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

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

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."

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

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

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

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

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

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

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."

"It takes a great man to be a good listener."

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

"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."

"A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

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

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"The best proof of love is trust."

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"

"Where there is love there is life."

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."

"The supreme happiness in life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."

"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."

"Do all things with love."

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

"The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country."

"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

"Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward."

"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."

"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."

"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, [journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."

"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."

"No one is listening until you make a mistake."

"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

"Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye."

"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears."

"Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it."

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

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

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

"The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him."

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."

"Patience makes lighter , What sorrow may not heal."

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."

"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."

"One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force."

"Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven."

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

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."

"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."

"He conquers who endures."

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

"Practice is the best of all instructors."

"A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success."

"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."

"Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection."

"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."

"It ain't braggin' if you can back it up."

"Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up."

"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."

"The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"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."

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."

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

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."

"Good questions outrank easy answers."

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

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"

"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

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

"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands."

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

"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."

"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant."

"This above all; to thine own self be true."

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."

"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength."

"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more."

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view."

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

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

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."

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

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads."

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

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

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

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts."

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."

"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

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

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"One thing you can't recycle is wasted time."

"Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."

"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

"You may delay, but time will not."

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."

"The Devil finds work for idle hands."

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

"The object of the superior man is truth."

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

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

"Virtue herself is her own fairest reward."

"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."

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

"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants."

"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."

"Real riches are the riches possessed inside."

"A fool and his money are soon parted."