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