Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt, politician, former president of the USA

Ayn Rand

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

- Ayn Rand, author

George Carlin

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

- George Carlin, comedian, actor, author

Virgil

"They can conquer who believe they can."

- Virgil, ancient Roman epic poet

Terence

"Too much liberty corrupts us all."

- Terence, ancient Roman playwright

Aristotle

"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing."

- Aristotle, philosopher

Alfred Tennyson

"Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds."

- Alfred Tennyson, poet

Helen Keller

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller, author and activist

W. B. Yeats

"Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart."

- 'Easter 1916' by W. B. Yeats

Theodore Roosevelt

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the USA

W. Somerset Maugham

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."

- W. Somerset Maugham, playwright and author

George Santayana

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

- George Santayana, philosopher, poet, author

Ronald Reagan

"I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."

- Ronald Reagan, former US president

J. K. Rowling

"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

- J. K. Rowling, author

Marlo Thomas

"I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married."

- Marlo Thomas, actor and social activist

Green Day

"The innocent can never last."

- Green Day, "Wake Me Up When September Ends"

James Thurber

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

- James Thurber, cartoonist, humourist, author

Steven Wright

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

- Steven Wright, actor and comedian

Jean de la Fontaine

"In short, Luck's always to blame."

- Jean de la Fontaine, fabulist, poet

Woody Allen

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen, filmmaker, actor and comedian

Will Rogers

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers, comedian, actor, social commentator

Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Mark Twain

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

- Mark Twain, author

John F. Kennedy

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

- John F. Kennedy, former president of the USA

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Douglas Adams

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

- Douglas Adams, author and dramatist

Ambrose Bierce

"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."

- "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce, journalist, author and satirist

Albert Einstein

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Francis Bacon

"By far the best proof is experience."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, author, lawyer

Dave Barry

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."

- Dave Barry, author and columnist

Voltaire

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

Laurence J. Peter

"The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it."

- Laurence J. Peter, teacher and hierarchiologist

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Anne Rice

"The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect."

- "Tale of the Body Thief" by Anne Rice

Henry David Thoreau

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet and developmental critic

Lao-Tzu

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao-tzu, philosopher

Corra Harris

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."

- Corra Harris, author

Publilius Syrus

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

Plato

"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."

- Plato, ancient Greek philosopher and author

Stars

"When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire."

- Stars, "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead"

Terence

"Nothing is said that has not been said before."

- Terence, ancient Roman playwright

Virgil

"O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men."

- Virgil, ancient Roman epic poet

Bertrand Russell

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian

Benjamin Franklin

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

Friedrich Nietzsche

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

J. K. Rowling

"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Thomas Jefferson

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA

Ovid

"To be loved, be lovable."

- Ovid, ancient Roman poet

Leo Buscaglia

"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."

- Leo Buscaglia, author and motivational speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt, politician, former president of the USA

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, author

Thomas Jefferson

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA

A. Sachs

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

- A. Sachs

Marlo Thomas

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning."

- Marlo Thomas, actor and social activist

Sara Teasdale

"I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes."

- Sara Teasdale, poet

Eddie Rickenbacker

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

- Eddie Rickenbacker, US WWI aviator & businessman

Ambrose Bierce

"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

- "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce, journalist, author and satirist

Euripides

"Happiness is a thing no man possesses. Fortune
May come now to one man, now to another, as
Prosperity increases; happiness, never."

- 'Medea' by Euripides

Anne Tyler

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."

- Anne Tyler, author

Patrick Kavanagh

"Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind
He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance."

- 'Epic' by Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh wrote this poem discussing a "local row" as he calls it, between two Irish farmers in a rural area, arguing over a tiny piece of land, each declaring it their own. Kavanagh compares it to the "Munich bother", i.e. the 1938 Munich conference and concludes that art is made great not by the subject matter, but by the artist, thus the somewhat arrogant reference to himself as one of the "Gods" of literature. Despite that, I like the idea of making your own importance, (even if we all might not be considered "Gods" by Kavanagh!), forging your own path. You can make your mark on the world even if what you have to say might not seem significant.

Jane Austen

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

- "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen, author

Helen Keller

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller, author and activist

Alfred North Whitehead

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."

- Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher

George Eliot

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

- George Eliot, author

Martin Luther King Jr.

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, philosopher and intellectual

George Carlin

"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."

- George Carlin, comedian, actor, author

Aesop

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."

- Aesop, Greek slave and fable author

Henry David Thoreau

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, developmental critic

Samuel Johnson

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."

- Samuel Johnson, author and poet

The Fray

"Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same"

- The Fray, "All At Once"

Lao-Tzu

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."

- Lao-tzu, philosopher

Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Francis Bacon

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, author

Rita Rudner

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times."

- Rita Rudner, comedian and actor

William Shakespeare

"In time we hate that which we often fear."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet

Fran Lebowitz

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."

- Fran Lebowitz, author

James Thurber

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

- James Thurber, cartoonist, humourist and author

Steven Wright

"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it."

- Steven Wright, actor and comedian

J. R. R. Tolkien

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

- J. R. R. Tolkien, author

John Updike

"Our names are used for convenience by others but figure marginally in our own minds, which know ourselves as an entity too vast and vague to name."

- "Gertrude and Claudius" by John Updike

J. K. Rowling

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets"

Aeschylus

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

- Aeschylus, Greek playwright

George Bernard Shaw

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic

Woody Allen

"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"

- Woody Allen, filmmaker, actor, comedian

Donald H. Rumsfeld

"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."

- Donald H. Rumsfeld, US politician

Harper Lee

"Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing"

- 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee

Ambrose Bierce

"Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."

- "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce, journalist, author and satirist

Shana Alexander

"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."

- Shana Alexander, journalist

Eavan Boland

"I knew
winter was in store for every leaf
on every tree on that road.
Was inescapable for each one we passed.
And for me."

- 'The Pomegranate' by Eavan Boland

Adrienne Rich

"Weather abroad
And weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction."

- 'Storm Warnings' by Adrienne Rich

In this poem, Rich uses the metaphor of a storm to represent change and its unpredictability, its inevitability, but also the inevitable and unstoppable nature of human emotions. We can attempt to control or predict our emotions, as we attempt to with the weather, but it is futile - the storms in our heart are as unstoppable as those in the sky overhead.

John Updike

"But how could any world be more glorious than this one? Its defining light, its countless objects and perspectives, its noises of life, of motion."

- "Gertrude and Claudius" by John Updike

Laurence J. Peter

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."

- Laurence J. Peter, teacher and hierarchiologist

Charles Dickens

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

- Charles Dickens, author

H. L. Mencken

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

- H. L. Mencken, journalist, editor, satirist, critic

Benjamin Disraeli

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician

Robert Frost

"I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old."

- Robert Frost, poet

Dorothy Parker

"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."

- Dorothy Parker, poet and satirist

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Publilius Syrus

"A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

J. K. Rowling

"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince"

Seneca

"All art is an imitation of nature."

- Seneca, ancient Roman orator and writer

Voltaire

"A witty saying proves nothing."

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

Joyce Carol Oates

"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."

- Joyce Carol Oates, author, playwright, poet, literary critic

Will Rogers

"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?"

- Will Rogers, comedian, actor, social commentator

Douglas Adams

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

- Douglas Adams, author and dramatist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Ronald Reagan

"Facts are stupid things."

- Ronald Reagan, former US president

Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

- Confucius, philosopher and social activist

W. Somerset Maugham

"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

- W. Somerset Maugham, playwright and author

John Updike

"'How can we not protest?' Horwendil said to her, impulsive in turn. 'Sent from the abode of angels to live on this earth among beasts and filth, and sentenced to death in a misery of foreknowing!'"

- "Gertrude and Claudius" by John Updike

Cicero

"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."

- Cicero, ancient Roman orator, politician and author

George Santayana

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

- George Santayana, philosopher, poet, author

Groucho Marx

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

- Groucho Marx, actor and comedian

Kahlil Gibran

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

- Kahlil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

Aristotle

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

- Aristotle, philosopher

John Steinbeck

"Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other"

- 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck

Theodore Roosevelt

"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

- Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the USA

Ambrose Bierce

"Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."

- "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce, journalist, author, satirist

Francis Bacon

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, author

Jane Austen

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."

- Jane Austen, author

Homer

"I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another."

- Homer, ancient Greek epic poet

Robert Fritz

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."

- Robert Fritz, author, composer, filmmaker

Ben Stein

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

- Ben Stein, actor, writer, lawyer

Oscar Wilde

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Tryon Edwards

"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

- Tryon Edwards, theologian

Benjamin Disraeli

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."

- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician

Ovid

"When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy."

- Ovid, ancient Roman poet

C. P. Snow

"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."

- C. P. Snow, author and scientist

Socrates

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

- Socrates, ancient Greek philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

H. G. Wells

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

- H. G. Wells, "The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman", author, historian, teacher, journalist

J. K. Rowling

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets"

Albert Camus

"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."

- Albert Camus, "The Rebel", author, philosopher, journalist

William Shakespeare

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", playwright and poet

Woody Allen

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. "

- Woody Allen, filmmaker, actor, comedian

Casey Stengel

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

- Casey Stengel, baseball manager

Ausonius

"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself."

- Ausonius, ancient Roman poet

Fritz Künkel

"To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes."

- Fritz Künkel, psychiatrist and psychologist

Aeschylus

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope."

- Aeschylus, ancient Greek playwright

Alan Dean Foster

"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting."

- Alan Dean Foster, author

Anatole France

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Dr. David M. Burns

"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."

- Dr. David M. Burns

Henry S. Haskins

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."

- Henry S. Haskins, American author, teacher

Carl Jung

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."

- Carl Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist

Abigail Van Buren

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."

- Abigail Van Buren, advice columnist

Abraham Lincoln

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

George Moore

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

- George Moore, author

René Descartes

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

- René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician, writer

Euripides

"To be rich and powerful brings no blessing;
Only more utterly
Is the prosperous house destroyed, when the gods are angry."

- 'Medea' by Euripides

Patrick Kavanagh

"I have what every poet hates in spite
Of all the solemn talk of contemplation."

- 'Iniskeen Road: July Evening' by Patrick Kavanagh

In this poem, Kavanagh speaks about his solitude as a poet. He discusses watching the townspeople passing in twos and threes, their intimacy and friendship is evident to him. Kavanagh however is on the edge, and this is as a result, he believes, of his being a poet. I think it's quite an interesting observation - quite shrewd really. Because when it comes down to it, who wants to be alone?

George Bernard Shaw

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic

Carol Burnett

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett, actor and comedian

Voltaire

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

Mahatma Gandhi

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

- Mahatma Gandhi, activist, political and spiritual leader

James Branch Cabell

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."

- James Branch Cabell, author

Anais Nin

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

- Anais Nin, author

Leo Buscaglia

"A life lived in love will never be dull."

- Leo Buscaglia, author and motivational speaker

Adrian Mitchell

"Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people."

- Adrian Mitchell, poet, author, playwright, journalist

Ann Radcliffe

"I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it."

- Ann Radcliffe, author

Publilius Syrus

"Many receive advice, few profit by it."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

Edmund Burke

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

- Edmund Burke, orator, philosopher, politician

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, author

Aldous Huxley

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

- Aldous Huxley, author and critic

Clarence Darrow

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

- Clarence Darrow, lawyer

B. F. Skinner

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

- B. F. Skinner, psychologist

Adrienne Rich

"Lying is done with words and also with silence."

- Adrienne Rich, poet

Jules Renard

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."

- Jules Renard, author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher and poet

James Thurber

"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."

- James Thurber, cartoonist, humourist, author

Anton Chekhov

"Man is what he believes."

- Anton Chekhov, physician, writer, playwright

John Steinbeck

"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick."

- 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck

Bertrand Russell

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian

Aristotle

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends"

- Aristotle, philosopher

D. H. Lawrence

“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”

- D. H. Lawrence, author, poet, playwright and critic

George D. Prentice

"When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his"

- George Dennison Prentice, newspaper editor

Albert Einstein

"The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Mae West

“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”

- Mae West, actor and playwright

Oscar Wilde

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Anthony Robbins

“If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.”

- Anthony Robbins, self-help author and motivational speaker

Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -"

- 'Hope is the thing with feathers...' by Emily Dickinson

Ovid

"Love will enter cloaked friendship's name."

- Ovid, ancient Roman poet

Anatole France

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Benjamin Franklin

"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished."

- Benjamin Franklin

Edward de Bono

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

- Edward de Bono, physicist, author, inventor

Barbara De Angelis

"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

- Barbara De Angelis, author and relationships consultant

Henry David Thoreau

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, development critic

William James

"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits."

- William James, philosopher and psychologist

Michel de Montaigne

"I am myself the matter of my book."

- Michel de Montaigne, statesman and author

Dag Hammmarskjold

"Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions."

- Dag Hammarskjold, diplomat, economist, author

John Wooden

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- John Wooden, basketball coach

Carl Rogers

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

- Carl Rogers, psychologist

Brian Tracy

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."

- Brian Tracy, self-help author and motivational speaker

Khalil Gibran

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

- Kahlil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

Mark Twain

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times."

- Mark Twain, author

Willa Cather

"Oh this is the joy of the rose:
That it blows
And goes."

- Willa Cather, author

Marian Wight Edelman

"If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out."

- Marian Wright Edelman, children's rights activist

Will Durant

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

- Will Durant, author, historian and philosopher

Harper Lee

"In our courts all men are created equal"

- 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee

Corinne Bailey Rae

"The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same"

- Corinne Bailey Rae, "Put Your Records On"

Eavan Boland

"Love had the feather and muscle of wings
and had come to live with us,
a brother of fire and air."

- 'Love' by Eavan Boland

I really like this line - it's from a poem in which Boland discusses her changing relationship with her husband. This particular line is from the part of the poem where Boland discusses the initial intensity of their love and I think the image is incredible, so tangible, which I think is exactly the way that Boland was trying to portray their love - delicate and strong all at once, as pure and essential as the elements themselves.

Arundhati Roy

"Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

- Arundhati Roy, writer and activist

Heywood Broun

"The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins."

- Heywood Broun, journalist

Leo Buscaglia

"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."

- Leo Buscaglia, author and motivational speaker

Walter Weckler

"Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst."

- Walter Weckler

John Steinbeck

"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."

- John Steinbeck, author

Euripides

"The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love"

- 'Medea' by Euripides

Albert Einstein

"The important thing is to not stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Eleanor Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat and reformer

Orson Welles

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

- Orson Welles, actor, director, writer, producer

Henry Drummond

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

- Henry Drummond, writer and lecturer

Buddha

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

- Buddha

William Jennings Bryan

“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

- William Jennings Bryan, politician

Thomas Carlyle

"Alas, the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself."

- Thomas Carlyle, satirist, essayist, historian

Dr. Seuss

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

- Dr. Seuss, author and cartoonist

U2

"You act like you never had love, and you want me to go without."

- U2, "One"

Kin Hubbard

"There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together."

- Kin Hubbard, cartoonist, humourist and journalist

Margaret Bonanno

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

- Margaret Bonanno, author

Anne Frank

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank, diarist

Gilda Radner

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity."

- Gilda Radner, comedian and actor

Albert Camus

"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist

Lillian Hellman

"People change and forget to tell each other."

- Lillian Hellman, playwright

William James

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James, philosopher and psychologist

Edward R. Murrow

"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."

- Edward R. Murrow, journalist

Charles Kettering

"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."

- Charles Kettering, inventor

Anais Nin

"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."

- Anais Nin, author

Adrienne Rich

"The moment of change is the only poem."

- Adrienne Rich, poet

Jimmy Buffett

"Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care."

- Jimmy Buffett, singer, songwriter, author, businessman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are always getting ready to live but never living."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Eleanor Powell

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."

- Eleanor Powell, actress

Norman Cousins

"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."

- Norman Cousins, journalist, author, professor and activist

Ann Landers

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

- Ann Landers, advice columnist

Maya Angelou

“Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it”

- Maya Angelou, poet and author

George S. Patton

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”

- George S. Patton, United States Army officer

Rollo May

"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt."

- Rollo May, psychologist

George Washington Carver

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.”

– George Washington Carver, scientist, botanist, educator and inventor

Don Miguel Ruiz

“Take nothing personally. Nothing others do is because of you.
Make no assumptions and be perfect in your word.”

- Don Miguel Ruiz, author

Frank Herbert

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."

- Frank Herbert, author

Norman B. Rice

“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.”

- Norman B. Rice, former mayor of Seattle

Jonathan Swift

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”

- Jonathan Swift, political pamhpleteer, poet, priest, essayist

Winston Churchill

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

- Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Britain

Isaac Asimov

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

- Isaac Asimov, author and biochemist

Gloria Steinem

"Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it."

- Gloria Steinem, feminist activist and author

George Bernard Shaw

"The problem with communication ... is the illusion that it has been accomplished."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic

Dolores Ibarruri

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

- Dolores Ibarruri, politician

Michel de Montaigne

"I quote others only in order to better to express myself."

- Michel de Montaigne, statesman and author

Sam Levenson

"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."

- Sam Levenson, comedian, writer, journalist

Tryon Edwards

"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

- Tryon Edwards, theologian

Mark Twain

"Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

- Mark Twain, author

Virgina Woolf

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

- Virginia Woolf, author

Kin Hubbard

"When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money."

- Kin Hubbard, cartoonist, humourist, journalist

Marcel Proust

"We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full."

- Marcel Proust, novelist, critic, essayist

Peter Drucker

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker, writer and management consultant

Voltaire

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

James Earl Jones

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."

- James Earl Jones, actor

Will Durant

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

- Will Durant, author, historian and philosopher

Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our distrust is very expensive."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Erich Fromm

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

- Erich Fromm, psychologist, philosopher and author

Abraham Lincoln

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.'"

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Pearl S. Buck

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."

- Pearl S. Buck, author and missionary

Carl Jung

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

- Carl Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist

Seneca

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

- Seneca, ancient Roman orator and writer

Bette Midler

"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance,
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance,
It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give,
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live."

- Bette Midler, "The Rose"

Henry Ward Beecher

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

- Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, orator and social reformer

Henri Bergson

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

- Henri Bergson, philosopher

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Frank Crane

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

- Frank Crane, actor and director

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt, former president of the USA

Thomas Wolfe

"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."

- Thomas Wolfe, author

Isocrates

"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can."

- Isocrates, Ancient Greek orator

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

- Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat and reformer

Clarence Darrow

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free."

- Clarence Darrow, lawyer

Aristotle

"In justice is all virtues found in sum."

- Aristotle, philosopher

Isaac Asimov

"The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you."

- Isaac Asimov, author and biochemist

George Bernard Shaw

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic

Margaret Cho

"Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion."

- Margaret Cho, comedian, actress, author

Albert Schweitzer

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

- Albert Schweitzer, theologian, musician, philosopher and physician

William James

"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions."

- William James, philosopher and psychologist

Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain, author

Walter Lippman

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."

- Walter Lippman, journalist, author and political commentator

Martin Luther King Jr.

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Susan Ertz

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

- Susan Ertz, author

Henri-Frederic Amiel

"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."

- Henri-Frederic Amiel, philosopher, poet, critic

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad"

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet and professor

Karla McLaren

"Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored -- but rarely, if ever, are they honored."

- Karla McLaren, self-help author

George Santayana

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

- George Santayana, philosopher, poet, author

John Wooden

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden, basketball coach

Ronald Reagan

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help'"

- Ronald Reagan, former US president

Blaise Pascal

"The heart has its own reasons which reason knows not of."

- Blaise Pascal, mathematician, philosopher, physicist

Anne Frank

"Parents can only give good advice or set them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands"

- Anne Frank, diarist

Robert G. Ingersall

"Hope is the only universal liar which never loses its reputation for veracity."

- Robert G. Ingersall, veteran, politician and orator

Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Marianne Williamson

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson, activist, author and lecturer

Henry David Thoreau

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, development critic

Coldplay

"If you never try, you'll never know
Just what you're worth."

- Coldplay, "Fix You"

Victor Hugo

"People do not lack strength, they lack will."

- Victor Hugo, poet, playwright, novelist, statesman, human rights activist

Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost, poet
'The Road Not Taken'

Pierre Abelard

"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth."

- Pierre Abelard, philosopher and theologian

Adrienne Rich

"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."

- Adrienne Rich, poet

Albert Camus

"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

- Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, author, statesman

George Bernard Shaw

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic

Marian Wright Edelman

"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"

- Marian Wright Edelman, children's rights activist

Anais Nin

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

- Anais Nin, author

Publilius Syrus

"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

Bertrand Russell

"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian

Jimmy Eat World

"You'll sit alone forever, if you wait for the right time."

- Jimmy Eat World, "23"

Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Brian Tracy

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy"

- Brian Tracy, self-help author and motivational speaker

Virginia Woolf

"It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything."

- Virginia Woolf, author

Richard Bach

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

- Richard Bach, author

John Naisbitt

"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."

- John Naisbitt, author

Magdalena Abakanowicz

"Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine."

- Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor

Bruce Feirstein

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

- Bruce Feirstein, screenwriter and author

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Kin Hubbard

"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation."

- Kin Hubbard, cartoonist, humourist, journalist

Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Harriet Martineau

"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."

- Harriet Martineau, writer, philosopher, journalist

William Lyon Phelps

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him."

- William Lyon Phelps, author, critic

Agatha Christie

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."

- Agatha Christie, author and playwright

Barbara De Angelis

"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment."

- Barbara De Angelis, author, relationships consultant

The Corrs

"Tell me it's true, tell me there's something more."

- The Corrs, "Good-Bye"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Alfred Tennyson

"I am a part of all that I have met."

- Alfred Tennyson, poet

Elbert Hubbard

"There is no failure, except in no longer trying."

- Elbert Hubbard, author, artist, philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."

- Blaise Pascal, mathematician, philosopher, physicist

Patrick Kavanagh

"I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day"

- 'On Raglan Road' by Patrick Kavanagh

Ovid

"So I can't live either without you or with you."

- Ovid, ancient Roman poet

Margaret Cho

"Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist."

- Margaret Cho, comedian, actress, author

Albert Einstein

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Pearl S. Buck

"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."

- Pearl S. Buck, author and missionary

Keane

"Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?"

- Keane, "Somewhere Only We Know"

Abraham Lincoln

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men"

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Epictetus

"Only the educated are free."

- Epictetus, philosopher

Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist, critic

Publilius Syrus

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

Aristotle

"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

- Aristotle, philosopher

Billy Wilder

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

- Billy Wilder, filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter

Lord Byron

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

- Lord Byron, poet

Louisa May Alcott

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them."

- Louisa May Alcott, author

Rita Mae Brown

"Good judgement comes from experience and often experience comes from bad judgement."

- Rita Mae Brown, author

Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Albert Camus

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there is within me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist

Coldplay

"When you love someone, but it goes to waste.
Could it be worse?"

- Coldplay, "Fix You"

Mark Twain

"Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God."

- Mark Twain, author

Pearl S. Buck

"When men destroy their old gods, they find new ones to take their place."

- Pearl S. Buck, author and missionary

Allan K. Chalmers

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for."

- Allan K. Chalmers

Douglas Adams

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

- Douglas Adams, author and dramatist

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"The true means of being misled is to believe oneself finer than the others."

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld, author

James Yorke

"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B"

- James Yorke, mathematician and physicist

Blondie

"Dreaming is free"

- Blondie, "Dreaming"

Cicero

"There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it"

- Cicero, ancient Roman orator, politician and author

Douglas MacArthur

"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur, American general

Germaine Greer

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

- Germaine Greer, writer, journalist

Henry David Thoreau

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, development critic

George Jean Nathan

"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few."

- George Jean Nathan, critic and editor

Kate Voegele

"I'll belong where I decide."

- Kate Voegele, "Angel"

Oscar Wilde

"I can resist everything except temptation."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Martin Niemoller

"First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - I was not a Jew
Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out - I was not a Communist
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me."

- Martin Niemoller, theologian and pastor imprisoned by Nazis in 1937

Ivy Baker Priest

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

- Ivy Baker Priest, American politician

Note: This has been posted before, but I thought it appropriate for the New Year. Happy New Year!