It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. (Rene Descartes)
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. (Luther Bear)
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. (David Frost)
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it. (Charles Caleb Colton)
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. (Buddha)
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds. (Jeremy Taylor)
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. (Anthony Robbins)
You have to eat the first piece of candy Before you can eat the whole bag. (Unknown)
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. (Napolean Hill)
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad. (Searamouche)
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. (Lisa Moriyama)
Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom. (Bernard De Voto)
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. (Evan Davis)
It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. (Dale Carnegie)
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. (Ray Bradbury)
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things. (Henry James)
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. (Unknown)
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. (Nikita Khrushchev)