“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.” - Euripides

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." - Dan Quayle

"When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'" - Steven Wright

"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." - W. H. Auden

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." - Quentin Crisp

"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people." - Alexis Carrel

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela

“It is better to have a little than nothing.” - Publilius Syrus

"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." - Josh Billings

"Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." - Harrison Ford (as Indiana Jones)

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

"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath." - Solon

"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." - A. L. Kitselman

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

"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble." -

"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words." - Apocrypha

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth." - J. K. Rowling

After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done. - Unknown

“Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.” - Lord Chesterfield

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything." - Charles Kuralt

"Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story." - Don Snyder

"Can I ever know you Or you know me?" - Sara Teasdale

“The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.” - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.” - Thomas Jefferson

"A ship in a calm sea doesn't travel far." - Unknown

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright

"Calmness is the cradle of power." - J. G. Holland

"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age." - Gloria Pitzer

“Habit is stronger than nature." - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)

"Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of." - Douglas Adams

"It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Eliot

"Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future." - Kathleen Norris

"It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy. - Steve Jobs

"Always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon

"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness." - Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse

"2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2." - Grabel's Law

"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future." - Jessamyn West

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." - Marilyn Monroe

"In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts." - Peter McWilliams

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

"Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'" - Joan McIntosh

"Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as miserable as they seemed at the time." - Unknown

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus

"Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does." - Bill Nye

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." - Richard Bach

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them." - Joseph Heller

"By the time we've made it, we've had it." - Malcolm Forbes

"Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts." - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death." - Joan D. Vinge

"The main thing is to know something and to say it." - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor." - Laurence J. Peter

"In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it." - Randy K. Milholland

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. - Josiah Quincy

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." - Kahlil Gibran

"Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good." - Saadi

"Good food ends with good talk." - Geoffrey Neighbor

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." - Lorraine Hansberry

"The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more." - Kin Hubbard

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." - Jewish proverb

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." - Phillips Brooks

"Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth." - Johann Georg von Zimmermann

"When people think the world of you, be careful with them." - Margaret Cho

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

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

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." - Anne Tyler

"Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws." - Sir Richard Francis Burton

"Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren." - William Henry Hudson

"There is no truth. There is only perception." ~ Gustave Flaubert

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.” - Pietro Aretino

“Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities” - Terry Josephson

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

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." - Robert Frost

"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go." - Margaret Walker

"Everybody needs somebody." - Mahalia Jackson

"When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished." - Luisa Sigea

"Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." - William Saroyan

"I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me." - Sara Teasdale

"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it." - Edith Wharton

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe

"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." - William J. H. Boetcker

"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance." - John Keats

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." - Miss Piggy

"It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back." - Mick Jagger

"Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long." - Robert Burton

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

"The future is no more uncertain than the present." - Walt Whitman

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago." - Horace Mann

"You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing." - R. D. Hitchcock

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them." - Lawana Blackwell

"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire." - Whoopi Goldberg

"To play it safe is not to play." - Robert Altman

"If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments." - Malcolm Gladwell

“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.” - Romain Gary

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” - Reginald B. Mansell

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness." - Pearl Buck

"The fact is, the old clichés work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clichés are clean and tidy." - Hugh Macleod

“Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.” - Johan Cruijff

"Let us have peace." - Ulysses S. Grant

"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain

"Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are." - Amy Bloom

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth." - Walt Whitman

"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong." - Swami Vivekananda

"Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible." - Sallust

"No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive." - Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Chuang-tzu

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it." - George Burns

"True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together." - Hugh Prather

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci

"When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned." - Melanie Benjamin

"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change." - Bret Harte

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." - David Russell

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." - Edward Abbey

"It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way." -John Viscount Morley

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

"Fish and visitors smell in three days." - Benjamin Franklin

"We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves." - Norman Fischer

"The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it." - Wilfred A. Peterson

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself." - Kathryn L. Nelson

“I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do stuff that no number of average people could do.” - Steve Jobs

“Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.” - Logan Pearsall Smith

“Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.” - Jonathan Swift

“When I am sad and weary When I think all hope has gone When I walk along High Holborn I think of you with nothing on.” - Adrian Mitchell

“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.” - Lyman Bryson

“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” - William Blake

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” - Simone Weil

“Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.” - Tillie Olsen

“Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.” - Peter Bonfield

“To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set.” - William Marsden

“The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.” - Unknown

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." - Ken Olsen

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it." - G. K. Chesterton

"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back." - Thomas a Kempis

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration." - Olive Schreiner

“We must recoil a little, to the end we may leap the better.” - George Herbert

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." - Plato

To the world you may just be one person, but to one person you may just be the world. - Mother Teresa

"When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, educate people." - Chinese proverb

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." - Plato

“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.” - Gail Sheehy

“To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set.” - William Marsden

“The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.” - Unknown

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." - Ken Olsen

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it." - G. K. Chesterton

"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back." - Thomas a Kempis

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration." - Olive Schreiner

“We must recoil a little, to the end we may leap the better.” - George Herbert

If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

To the world you may just be one person, but to one person you may just be the world. - Mother Teresa

"Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there." - David Zucker

"The greater the effort, the greater the glory." - Pierre Corneille

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace." - Amelia Earhart

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be

all progress depends on the unreasonable man

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

get all the good laughs you can

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can." - Will Rogers

the boy is the most unmanageable

"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable." - Plato

Those who hide can find

"Those who hide can find." - Unknown

Anyone can admit to themselves

Anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, but the wise man can admit it to others. ~ Unknown

Appreciation is a wonderful thing

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." - Voltaire

"Acceptance without proof

"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." - Gary Zukav

All the world's a cage." -

"All the world's a cage." - Jeanne Phillips

your wisest words

"Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say." - Robert Service

Your mind will answer most questions

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William S. Burroughs

You always pass failure on the way to success

"You always pass failure on the way to success." - Mickey Rooney

When you make a mistake, admit it.

"When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse." - Ward Cleaver

When your work speaks for itself,

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." - Henry J. Kaiser

Your ears will never get you in trouble.

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." - Frank Tyger

The way we see the problem is the problem

"The way we see the problem is the problem." - Stephen Covey

Deal with the faults of others

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~ Chinese Proverb

Heat cannot be separated from fire

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. ~ Dante A.

I do not cut my life up into days

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life. ~ Juan Ramon Jimenez

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~ Mark Van Doren

A guilty conscience needs to confess

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. ~ Albert Camus

People who respect quality find each other

People who respect quality find each other. ~ Alan Cohen

The measure of a man

The measure of a man is what he does with power. ~ Plato

Your reputation is more important

Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. ~ Ryan Chris

When you question your stressful thoughts

When you question your stressful thoughts, the freedom that comes out of that graces the world for all of us. ~ Byron Katie

Little by little, through patience

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self. ~ Bhagavad Gita

Woman is a ray of God.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not just the earthly beloved. She is creative, not created. ~ Rumi

Kindness is like snow - it beautifies

"Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers." - French proverb

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you ever. ~ Holly Marie Combs

A committee can make a decision

"A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members." - David Coblitz

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect

"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect." - Ted Turner

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

"Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake." - Persian proverb

He who is not very strong in memory

"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying." - Michel de Montaigne

There will be a time when

"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails." - Richard Rybolt

Nature has been for me,

"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion." - Lorraine Anderson

The direction in which education starts a man

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." ~ Plato

Listen in deep silence

"Listen in deep silence. Be very still and open your mind." ~ A Course in Miracles

What's preventing you from realizing your dreams?

"What's preventing you from realizing your dreams? What would you be doing right now if you were fearless?" ~ Holly Wilson

"Never deprive someone of hope

"Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have." ~ Anonymous

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed

"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so we can see life with a clearer view again." ~ Alex Tan

Men always forget that human happiness

"Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances." ~ John Locke

At any moment, you have a choice

"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Have patience: wait til the mud settles

"Have patience: wait til the mud settles and water is clear. remain unmoving til right action arises by itself." ~ Lao Tzu

"Women marry men hoping they will change.

"Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not." ~ Albert Einstein

There are two reasons for doing something

"There are two reasons for doing something: a really good reason and the real reason." ~ Unknown

The possible's slow fuse is lit

"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination." ~ Emily Dickinson