Albert Camus

"We only know of one duty, and that is to love."

Robert J. Sawyer

"The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore."

Helmuth von Moltke

"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks."

C. S. Lewis

"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair."

Barbra Streisand

"Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth."

Elizabeth Goudge

"Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing."

Max L. Forman

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."

Anna Sewell

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."

Og Mandino

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

W. Beran Wolfe

"If you observe a really happy man, you will find... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day."

Sydney Smith

"Live always in the best company when you read."

Matthew Arnold

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

Hunter S. Thompson

"Buy the ticket take the Ride"

Ernst Haas

"Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'."

Voltaire

"...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

James Boswell

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

W. Somerset Maugham

"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life."

Sallust

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

Phillips Brooks

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle."

Mahatma Gandhi

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."

Dorothy Day

"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."

Randy Pausch

"Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older."

Carlos A. Urbizo

"Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at."

Sally Kempton

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer."

Meryl Streep

"Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia."

George Washington

"It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing."

Walt Whitman

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

Marcus Valerius Martialis

"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."

Marie de Sevigne

"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it."

Ben Jonson

"Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."

Barry Neil Kaufman

"A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper."

Kurt Lewin

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."

Anne Michaels

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."

Thomas Jefferson

"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."

Sir Winston Churchill

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

Fulton J. Sheen

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

Gwendolyn Brooks

"To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well."

Shirley MacLaine

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."

Real Live Preacher

"I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient."

Saint Jerome

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."

Arnold Toynbee

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

Gordon Parks

"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed."

Dag Hammarskjold

"For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes."

Jimmy Carter

"We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself."

Edward Fitzgerald

"Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy."

Anna Quindlen

"When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life."

Ben Azai

"Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place."

Ayn Rand

"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."

Salvador Dali

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

Pico Iyer

"Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred."

Thomas J. Watson

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."

John Mitchell Mason

"Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity."

Cheryl Tiegs

"Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it."

Quintilian

"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."

John Fletcher

"Deeds, not words shall speak me."

General Douglas MacArthur

"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity."

Virginia Woolf

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

Voltaire

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."

Latin Proverb

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."

Evenius

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

Kyran Pittman

"Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over."

Alexander Woo

"The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that."

Oprah Winfrey

"If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't."

George Herbert

"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."

Laura Moncur

"There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

Kathleen Casey Theisen

"Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it."

Dorothea Brande

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

Meredith Willson

"Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today."

Steve Jobs

"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."

Rita Mae Brown

"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself."

William James

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."

Elain Heffner

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

Anita Roddick

"The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you."

Alfred North Whitehead

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."

Lord Chesterfield

"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."

Hugh Macleod

"The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy."

Edward R. Murrow

"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."

Plato

"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."

Langston Coleman

"Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent."

David P. Mikkelson

"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."

Shana Alexander

"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."

Hasidic Saying

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

Og Mandino

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."

Socrates

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

Benjamin Franklin

"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."

Carl Jung

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves."

Frank Herbert

"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh."

Sharon Salzberg

"By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it."

Jim Beggs

"What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of."

Kahlil Gibran

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

Maya Angelou

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

Lawana Blackwell

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes."

John Milton

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. "

Norman Maclean

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

Roy M. Cohn

"Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously."

John Herschel

"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

Moliere

"There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with."

Eugene S. Wilson

"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."

William Shakespeare

"We are advertis'd by our loving friends."

Eric Schmidt

"In a networked world, trust is the most important currency."

Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. "

Chilo

"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse."

Christina Rossetti

"[Spring is] when life's alive in everything."