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