Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians. (Franklin P. Jones)
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. (Samuel Johnson)
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. (Havelock Ellis)
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. (Francis Marion)
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. (Adlai Ewing Stevenson)
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior. (Amy Vanderbilt)
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. (Albert Einstein)
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy. (Aristotle)
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea (e e cummings)
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance. (James A. Autry)
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. (Og Mandino)
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. (Doug Floyd)
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. (Bertrand Russell)
It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear. (Henry David Thoreau)
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. (William Adams)
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. (Irwin Edman)