A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. (Euripides)
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. (Elias Canetti)
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. (Woody Allen)
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. (Lee Iacocca)
Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit. (W. G. Morrice)
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. (Carl Sandburg)
Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action. (Samuel Smiles)
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits. (Ernest Hemingway)
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. (Booker T. Washington)
Above all things, reverence yourself. (Pythagoras)
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. (Leo C. Rosten)
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. (Mortimer Adler)
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. (Kahlil Gibran)
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. (John Ruskin)
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. (Jesus)
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. (La Rochefoucauld)
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. (Seneca)
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. (Johann von Goethe)
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. (Virginia)
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. (Frank Herbert)