"Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead." - Laura Moncur

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." - Victor Hugo

"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me--until the last small twig has grown." - Kathe Kollwitz

"Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off." - Paul Brodeur

"Cherish each hour of this day, for it can never return." - Og Mandino

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment." - Seneca

“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.” - Mahatma Gandhi

"Dream in a pragmatic way." - Aldous Huxley

"Simplicity is the peak of civilization." - Jessie Sampter

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." - William Ralph Inge

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

"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts." - Colette

"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood." - Tom Hanks

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - C.S. Lewis

"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it." - Elizabeth Bowen

"A will finds a way." - Orison Swett Marden

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown

"The ancestor of every action is a thought." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties." - Aesop

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." - Margaret Bonnano

"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down." - Sara June Parker

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." - Charles Dickens

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it." - Alfred Hitchcock

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

"It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean." - Tony Robbins

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. - Lord Byron

"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody." - Mark Twain

"We can learn something new anytime we believe we can." - Virginia Satir

"If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had." - Izzy F. Stone

"What you cannot enforce, do not command." - Sophocles

"Seek home for rest, for home is best." - Thomas Tusser

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die." - Amelia Burr

"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest." - Wilson Mizner

"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben

"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." - Andrew Carnegie

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

"It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." - Kahlil Gibran

"It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good." - Lisa Williams

"The sweetest of all sounds is praise." - Xenophon

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike." - John Muir

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

"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us." - Samuel Johnson

"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that, in due course, they actually become the person they seem." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling." - Nikki Giovanni

"In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it." - Francis Thompson

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Madeline Stark

"it seems like the daylight is coming, and no one is watching but me." - Counting Crows

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy C. Fisher

"I don't want to live to see the day we say goodbye." - Hootie and the Blowfish

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out--it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service

"Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion." - Tina Fey

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

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best." - Frida Kahlo