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."