I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

Stefan Banach

Decision: Something a man makes when he cannot get anyone to serve on a committee.

Fletcher Knebel

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

William Penn

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Henry David Thoreau

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

Joyce Meyer

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Elbert Hubbard

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.

Kim Dong Hwa

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Charles Spurgeon

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

Ivor Novello