"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity." - Francis Bacon, Sr.

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." - Thomas Sowell

"The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average -- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success." - R.J. Palacio

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it." - Sarah Dessen

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff." - Jon Katz

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." - Fred Astaire

"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift." - Seneca

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours." - Ayn Rand

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." - Helen Keller

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."  - John Berry

"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on." - Beryl Pfizer

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday." - Jonathan Swift

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." - Franklin P. Jones

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." - William Arthur Ward

"It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters." - Paul "Bear" Bryant

"The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." - Sir Henry Taylor

"You're worried about how you're going to feel at the end of your life? What about right now? Live. Right this minute. That's where the joy's at." - Abigail Thomas

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." - Epictetus

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear." - Franklin D. Roosevelt