At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
John F. Kennedy
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thomas Fuller
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave Barry
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt
These are the times that try men's souls.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.
Douglas Adams
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie Ten Boom
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Aeschylus
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
Henry Ward Beecher
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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