"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." - Frank Crane

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." - Oscar Wilde

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." - Benjamin Franklin.

"I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress." - George H.W. Bush

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino

"America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining." - George W. Bush

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You just can't beat the person who won't give up." - Babe Ruth

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary." - Vince Lombardi

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schulz

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." - Victor Hugo

"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along." - Madeleine L'Engle

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." - Sonya Friedman

"Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek & find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." - James Allen

"It's better to be late in this life, than early in the next." - Straight Lines "Runaway Now"

"Happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it but only YOU can feel the warmth." - Ashton Kutcher

"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead." - Mac McCleary

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby." - Ruth Renkel

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." - William Ellery Channing

"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water." - Miguel de Cervantes

"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition." - Sir William Osler

"Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last." - Greg Evans

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman

"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it." - Salma Hayek

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are." - Malcolm Forbes

"Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal." - Cory Doctorow

"Make your life a mission --- not an intermission." - Arnold Glasgow

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Cicero

"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy." - Jim Rohn

"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." - John Erskine

"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness." - Sir Robert Hutchinson

"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." - Josh Billings

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." - Robert Fripp

"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent." - John F. Kennedy

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." - Dutch Proverb

"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them." - Jim Rohn

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

"Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding." - Proverbs 23:23

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein

"Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do." - Bettina Arndt

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without." - James C. Dobson

"By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation." - Oscar Wilde

"Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about." - Dave Mustaine

"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." - Robert J. Shiller

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." - John F. Kennedy

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca, Roman philosopher

"How long should you try? Until." - Jim Rohn

"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind." - Austin O'Malley

"If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction." - Martin Kornfeld

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." - Miguel de Cervantes

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz

"All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Reggie Leach

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling." - Nikki Giovanni

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Bronte

"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent." - Krishnamurti

"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character." - Grenville Kleiser

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day." - Albert Camus

"My interest is in the future... because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." - Charles Kettering

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?" - Bernadette Peters

"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need." - Voltaire

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." - Phyllis Diller

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!" - C.S. Lewis

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Louis D. Brandeis

"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." - Thucydides

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." - Rod McKuen

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt

"You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me." - Scott Adams

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." - Bob Newhart

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George

"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good." - Malcolm Gladwell

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." - Robert H. Goddard

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Browne

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau

"Put up with it and you will get more of it." - Lynne Deal

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Brandi Snyder

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." - Titus Livius

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." - Henry Miller

"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." - Ann Landers

"To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success." - Henry John Heinz

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!" - Marvin Phillips

"Laughter is much more important than applause.
Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward." - Carol Channing

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

"Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life." - Robert Brault

"Don't be afraid of showing your feelings; be afraid of regretting it when you didn't." - Laura Springer

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson