“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.” - Robert Burton

"Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best." - Kin Hubbard

"I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve." - Barack Obama

"Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good." - White Eagle

“To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.” - Tom Robbins

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." - Charles A. Dana

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa

"Love is trembling happiness." - Khalil Gibran

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J. K. Rowling

“We can't control the wind, but we have the power to adjust the sails.” - Unknown

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself." - Oprah Winfrey

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale

"If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do." - Julie Morgenstern

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be." - Oprah Winfrey

"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source." - The Dhammapada

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim

"Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul." - Erica Eisdorfer

"Dreams are necessary to life." - Anais Nin

“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.” - Persius

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to." - Abigail Van Buren

“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

"Be yourself. The world worships the original." - Ingrid Bergman

"Life is not an exact science, it is an art." - Samuel Butler

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting." - Benjamin Franklin

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison

"If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people." - Oriental Proverb

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right." - Phil Crosby

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit." - Jacqueline Cochran

"I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit." - Jacqueline Cochran

"I'm thankful for every moment." - Al Green

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

"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Van Horne

"Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in." - Jennifer Neal

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

"It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day." - Frank B. Kellogg

"The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." - Ivy Baker Priest

"Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle, i.e., being human." - Hugh Macleod

"Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better." - Kate Winslet

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth." - Bonnie Friedman

“A friend is someone that won't begin to talk behind your back when you leave the room.” - Unknown

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” - Eden Phillpotts

"We are the hero of our own story." - Mary McCarthy

"Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most." - Kathryn L. Nelson

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have." - Eckhart Tolle

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust." - Henry L. Stimson

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." - George Burns

"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others." - Anne-Sophie Swetchine

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase." - Epictetus

“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.” - Leontyne Price

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." - Aaron Rose

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Charles Caleb Colton

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

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way." - Laurence J. Peter

"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard." - William Lloyd Garrison

"Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either." - Jewish Proverb

"Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions." - Charles Caleb Colton

"When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake." - Stephanie Barron

"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid." - Basil King

"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens." - Charles Morgan

“It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” - Elizabeth Taylor

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." - J. K. Rowling

"Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them." - Bill Kelly

"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent." - J. H. Holmes

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

"You never find yourself until you face the truth." - Pearl Bailey

"Be who you are and be that well." - Saint Francis de Sales

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." - Thomas A. Edison

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." - Duke Ellington

"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it." - Horace Mann

"How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!" - Ann Radcliffe

"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world." - Dorothy L. Sayers

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates

"Life is largely a matter of expectation." - Horace

"She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell." - Marita Bonner

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

"[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home." - David Frost

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”. - Victor Hugo

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt

"What you risk reveals what you value." - Jeanette Winterson

"We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it." - Anne Wilson Schaef

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton

"Hope is only the love of life." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” - Aristotle

"Silence is a source of great strength." - Lao Tzu

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us." - Charles de Gaulle

“We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.” - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it." - Samuel Butler

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable." - Eric Hoffer

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge." - Abraham Joshua Heschel

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon

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

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

"My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible." - Josephine demott Robinson

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great person is unique." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends." - Pearl S. Buck

"To be is to do." - Immanuel Kant

"You can't be brave if you've had only wonderful things happen to you." - Mary Tyler Moore

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." - Abraham Lincoln

“Your actions speak so loud that I can't hear what you're saying.” - Unknown

"Responsibility is the price of freedom." - Elbert Hubbard

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." - Eugene Delacroix

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey

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

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."- Soren Kierkegaard

“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities." - William Arthur Ward

"Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism." -- Eric Gibson

"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?" - Cicero

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." - Ronald Reagan

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli

"A minute's success pays the failure of years." - Robert Browning

"Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak." - Laura Moncur

“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.” - Alexander Smith

"Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger."- Cicero

"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself." - Swami Vivekananda

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” - George Linnaeus Banks

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board [reading the child's schoolwork]^. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted." - Voltaire

"No one wants advice - only corroboration." - John Steinbeck

"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity." - Andre Gide

"It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space." - Thomas K. Mattingly II

"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained." - Edward R. Murrow

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" - John Wooden

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

"The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that." - Alexander Woo

"The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life." - William Shakespeare

"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long." - Miguel de Cervantes

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

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

"In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything." - Jeffrey F. Chamberlain

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

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." - Edward Gibbon

"When deeds speak, words are nothing." - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H. P. Lovecraft

"You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature." - George W. Bush

"I passionately hate the idea of being 'with it,' I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." - Orson Welles

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

"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation." - Roger Allen

"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense." - Josh Billings

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." - William Penn

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" - Audrey Hepburn

"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast." - Alfred A. Montapert

"Even God cannot change the past." - Agathon

"A friend is a second self." - Aristotle

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

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"Underpromise; overdeliver." - Tom Peters

"If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency." - Sir Joshua Reynolds

"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character." - Isabelle Eberhardt

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." - Kin Hubbard

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure." - Benjamin Franklin

"The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy." - Charlotte-Catherine

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life." - Bertolt Brecht

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones." - Seneca

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all." - Anna Quindlen

"Woe be to him that reads but one book." - George Herbert

"Woe be to him that reads but one book." - George Herbert

"When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water." - Unknown

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ~ Confucius

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~William Jennings Bryan

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." - Sir Francis Bacon

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." - Sir Francis Bacon

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." - Mae West

You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The crowd gives the leader new strength." - Evenius

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people." - Mark Twain

"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought." - Sir William Osler

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." - Paul Engle

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality." - Charles Lamb

"What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?" - Jeph Jacques

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time." - Willem de Kooning

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Sir Winston Churchill

"The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does." - Hugh Macleod

"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!" - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present." - English proverb

"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours." - Sam Ewing

"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France

"A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is." - Laura Moncur

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate." - Vincent Van Gogh

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others." - Hasidic Saying

"There, I guess King George will be able to read that." - John Hancock (after signing the American Declaration of Independence). I don't know if anyone has talked better smack since.

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself." - Andre Gide

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." - Lillian Hellman

"Reality is something you rise above." - Liza Minnelli

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." - Noel Coward

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." - Abraham Lincoln

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." - H. L. Mencken

"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it." - Jane Wagner

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

"Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery." - Matthew Arnold

"A book of quotations . . . can never be complete." - Robert M. Hamilton

"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane." - Hermann Hesse

"The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something." - Muhammed Iqbal

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you." - Frank Wilczek

"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion." - C. P. Snow

"War is not nice." - Barbara Bush

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell

"Regimen is superior to medicine." - Voltaire

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"Silence is a text easy to misread." - A. A. Attanasio

"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

"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it." - Mark Twain

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau

"Know or listen to those who know." - Baltasar Gracian

"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact." - Edmund Burke

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

"A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else." - Cardinal de Retz

"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars." - Garrison Keillor