If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. (Thomas Wolfe)
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. (Marie Curie)
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. (Thomas Huxley)
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. (William Hazlitt)
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67. (Norman R. Augustine)
What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. (Henry David Thoreau)
Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. (La Bruyere)
Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down. (Wilson Mizner)
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. (Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood)
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. (J. Donald Wlters)
If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it. (Diana Nyad)
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas (Jean Kerr)
If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. (Barbara Colorose)
In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft. (Chinese Proverb)
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. (Mark Twain)
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. (Robert Hutchins)
A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. (Michael J. Gelb)
It's hard to create humor because of the unfair competition from the real world. (Peter's Almanac)
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. (Sir Winston Churchill)
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. (Archbishop Ireland)