"You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block." - John Rogers

"It is not enough to aim; you must hit." - Italian proverb

"Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth." - Barbra Streisand

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." - Walter Elliot

"The shell must break before the bird can fly." - Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." - Harold S. Geneen

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone." - Robert Frost

"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." - John Updike

"If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?" - Margot Fonteyn

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

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

"The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another." - Dan Bennett

"In wisdom gathered over time, I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." - Ansel Adams

"There are no 'easy answers,' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right." - Ronald Reagan

"Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them." - Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them." - Albert Camus

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

"It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself." - Graham Greene

"The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty." - George F. Will

"Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable." - John D. MacDonald

"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing--peace is the measure." - George Melton

"The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society." - Emma Goldman

"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities." - Eric Hoffer

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today." - Will Rogers

"You are remembered for the rules you break." - Douglas MacArthur

"Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt

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

"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

"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus

"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." - Oprah Winfrey

"It is only the first step that is difficult." - Marie De Vichy-Chaconne

"By constant self-discipline and self-control, you can develop greatness of character." - Grenville Kleiser

"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." - Ellen DeGeneres

"After all is said and done, more is said than done." - Aesop

"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott

"You're blessed if you have the strength to work." - Mahalia Jackson

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." - Dutch Proverb

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers. - African Proverb

"The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold." - Glenn Doman

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Gandhi

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Enthusiasm moves the world." - Arthur Balfour

"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality." - Henry David Thoreau

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Vernon Sanders Law

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."- Katherine Mansfield

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Edward J. Phelps

"Taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe." - Homer

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber." - Sir Winston Churchill

"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery." - John Paul Jones

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy

"Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."" - Anna Lappe

"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Complain to one who can help you." - Yugoslav proverb

"Perseverance does not equal worthiness." - Lawrence Kaplow

"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky. You look in you." - Alan Watts

"It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice." - Anne Tyler

"Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner." - Lady Gaga

"I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin

"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous." - Amelia Barr

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry." - Henry Ward Beecher

"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman." - Betty Friedan

"Faith is a higher faculty than reason." - Philip James Bailey

“Faith is a higher faculty than reason.” - Philip James Bailey

"We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?" - Betty White

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie." - William Shakespeare

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

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence." - Edith Sitwell

"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness." - Sir Robert Hutchinson

"More of me comes out when I improvise." - Edward Hopper

"Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion." - Eubie Blake

"Our heroes are people, and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love." - Randy K. Milholland

"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." - Dale Carnegie

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." - Albert Einstein

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci

"When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure." - Aaron McGruder

"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

"If we would confess our sins to one another, we would all laugh at the lack of originality." - Unknown

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." - Rudyard Kipling

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow." - Lawrence Clark Powell

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus

"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." - Lyndon B. Johnson

"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." - Earl Mac Rauch

"What is forgiven is usually well remembered." - Louis Dudek

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Lindquist

"Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure." - Laura Moncur

"I can resist anything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde

"Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure." - Laura Moncur

"I can resist anything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde

"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object." - Joseph Addis

"True strength is delicate." - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

"If I am walking with two others, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself." - Confucius

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles DuBois

"Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry." - Spanish Proverb

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington

"You make your guests feel welcome and at home. That's the secret of entertaining. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself." - Barbara Hall

"It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters." - Seneca

"Failure is success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Reggie Leach

"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon." - David Assael

"Men are only as loyal as their options." - Bill Maher

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory." - Antonio Porchia

"Hope is necessary in every condition." - Samuel Johnson

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often." - Brian Tracy

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Agatha Christie

"All I ask for is the opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness." - Unknown

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders a man happy." - Voltaire

"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough." - Anna Quindlen

"If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave." - David

"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it." - Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli

"By all means use some time to be alone." - Edward Young

"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself." - Garth Brooks

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

"Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused." - King Charles I

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." - Lao Tzu

"Your life is what your thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - George Bernard Shaw

"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please." - Pythagoras

"Little by little, one travels far." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does." - James Hilton

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults." - Antisthenes

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." - Dr. Laura Schlessinger

"Don't fight the problem, decide it." - George C. Marshall

"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it." - George McDonald

"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Mark Twain

"Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent." - Langston Coleman

"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch." - Bette Davis

"Genius is eternal patience." - Michelangelo

"At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived." - Dame Rose Macaulay

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." - D. H. Lawrence

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." - H. L. Hunt

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." - Julia Sorel

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury. - Unknown

"In the absence of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras." - Tom Nolan

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions." - Gloria Swanson

"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward." - Patricia Sampson

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas A. Edison

Call her. Wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, daughter, girlfriend, fiancée, or the woman you'd like to know better. Call her.

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

"Magnificent promises are always to be suspected." - Theodore Parker

“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion” - Richard John Neuhaus

"Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends." - Juvenal

"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words." - Dr. Joyce Brothers

"There is admirable potential in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'" - Andre Gide

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Reprove your friend privately; commend him publicly." - Solon

"Reprove your friend privately; commend him publicly." - Solon

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Marianne Williamson

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Marianne Williamson

"Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside." - Hugh Macleod

"Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside." - Hugh Macleod

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

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

“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.” - H. Stein

"We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey." - John Hope Franklin

"Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language." - Henry James

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." - Samuel Johnson

"If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot." - Italian Proverb

"I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure." - Og Mandino

“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe