Robert Altman

"To play it safe is not to play."

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

"Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them."

W. Somerset Maugham

"I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world."

Eric Schmidt

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

Bob Newhart

"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!"

Christina Baldwin

"Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out."

Jennifer Hudson

"If you�re... asking yourself why I have this success and you don�t, don�t be angry with me�stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back."

Henry Bromel

"There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try."

David Hume

"Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man. "

Mark Twain

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

Kathleen A. Sutton

"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have."

John Green

"That�s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."

Arthur Miller

"The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star."

Angela L. Wozniak

"I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me."

Jean Nidetch

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

"The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across."

Mahatma Gandhi

"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."

Sylvia Plath

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

Albert Ellis

"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."

Hugh Elliott

"Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world..."

Ecclesiastes

"Be not slow to visit the sick."

Indira Gandhi

"We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

Publilius Syrus

"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."

Laurence J. Peter

"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going."

Matthew Prior

"Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind."

Kahlil Gibran

"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."

Sean Stewart

"Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for."

Winifred Holtby

"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."

Novalis

"There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man."

William Penn

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

Terri Minsky

"It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes."

Scott Westerfeld

"Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear."

Francis Quarles

"Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse."

Oprah Winfrey

"My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good."

Jerry Van Amerongen

"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!"

John Keats

"I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."

William Shakespeare

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

Krishnamurti

"When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."

Thomas A. Edison

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

Malcolm X

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Blaise Pascal

"We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."

Dinah Shore

"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."

A. Sachs

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Margaret Atwood

"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Albert Schweitzer

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."

Heather Armstrong

"He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it."

J. K. Rowling

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

John Barth

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

Mary Pettibone Poole

"He who laughs, lasts!"

Eli Attie

"We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole."

Conan O'Brien

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you�re kind, amazing things will happen."

Henry Miller

"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"

Edgar Allan Poe

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."

Andre Gide

"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable."

John Wayne

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."

Jennifer Hudson

"The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations."

Norah Jones

"If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose."

Italian Proverb

"It is not enough to aim; you must hit."

Linda Berdoll

"Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own."

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!"

Aristotle

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."

Sir Winston Churchill

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

J. H. Holmes

"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent."

Pablo Picasso

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..."

Socrates

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

Albanian Proverb

"When you have given nothing, ask for nothing."

Shlomo Bernartzi

"Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us."

David Assael

"Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others."

Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde

"Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards."

Zelda Fitzgerald

"[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn�t boring."

George Moore

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

Anne Tyler

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

William S. Burroughs

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."

Real Live Preacher

"Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'"

Plutarch

"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."

Thomas K. Mattingly II

"It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space."

Agatha Christie

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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."

Bob Dylan

"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks."

Michel de Montaigne

"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."

Joyce Carol Oates

"If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it."

Goldie Hawn

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."

Ivan Pavlov

"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."

Sir Walter Scott

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit."

Millicent Fenwick

"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."

Ann Radcliffe

"Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value."

Kathy Sierra

"In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are."

Whitney Young

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."

Bible

"Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you."

Meryl Streep

"My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

Rene Descartes

"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."

The Dhammapada

"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone."

Peter McWilliams

"The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going."

Ann Richards

"I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system."

Kevin Smith

"More often than not, a hero�s most epic battle is the one you never see; it�s the battle that goes on within him or herself."

Roseanne Barr

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

Mary Pettibone Poole

"People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt."

Hyman Rickover

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."

Samuel Butler

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."

Henry Ford

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

Ken Kesey

"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."

Jane Austen

"It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

C. Kent Wright

"To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak."

Sugar

"You don�t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don�t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don�t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don�t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts./ You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth./ But that�s all."

Oprah Winfrey

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."

Seneca

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."

Benjamin Franklin

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."

L. M. Montgomery

"I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."

Norman Thomas

"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."

Peter Ustinov

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."