Everybody has the right to be left alone but nobody has the right to demand approval.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Ernest Hemingway

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Charles Dickens

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Blaise Pascal

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

John Wooden

After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.

H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Franklin P. Jones

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Frida Kahlo

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.

Og Mandino

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Robert Neelly Bellah