"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James
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"Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar." - Benjamin Franklin
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"The covers of this book are too far apart." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch
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"I pity the fool!" - Mr. T
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"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children." - King Edward VIII
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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." - Robert Frost
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"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before." - Thorstein Veblen
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"During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." - Fritjof Capra, physicist
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"When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it." - Carly Fiorina
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"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." - Bruce Lee
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"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard." - Colin Powell
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"The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them." - Woodrow Wilson
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"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it." - Frank Tyger
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"You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you." - Meryl Streep
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"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends." - Herbert Hoover
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"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way." - Eileen Caddy
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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"As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." - Amy Poehler
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"Over and over again, we lose site of what is important and what isn't. We crave things over which we have no control, and not satisfied by the things within our control. We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not." - Epictetus
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"You attract what you are, not what you want. So if you want it then reflect it!" - Tony Gaskins
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"Those that will not read have no advantage over those that cannot read." - Mark Twain
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“The ultimate ignorance is the blind opinion charged rejection of any issue; coupled with the arrogant absence of correct knowledge which refuses to investigate what is known little or nothing about” - Dr. David L. Perry Th.D.
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"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." - James Gordon
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"Ask yourself: What grand goals would inspire me every minute of every day? What would I do with my life if I were playing full-out? If I were thinking big -- and even bigger than that! -- what dream would I commit to fulfilling?" - Dr. Gay Hendricks
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"Always show more kindness than you think is necessary because the receiver needs it more than you know." - Arthur Caliandro
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford
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"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
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"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone." - Henry Rollins
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values." - Norman Thomas
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