The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

George Lloyd

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.

Iba Ezra

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Mia Wasikowska

There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.

Proverb

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

James Callaghan

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Albert Camus

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Orison Swett Marden

I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

Samuel Johnson

I loved my friendHe went away from meThere's nothing more to sayThe poem ends soft as it began -I loved my friend.

Langston Hughes

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle