Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Source Unknown

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Walter Pater

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Stephen Leacock

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

Kim Cattrall

In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness would have moved her to great compassion. But so long accustomed to suppress emotion and keep down reality, so long schooled for her own purposes in that destructive school which shuts up the natural feelings of the heart like flies in amber and spreads one uniform and dreary gloss over the good and bad, the feeling and the unfeeling, the sensible and the senseless, she had subdued even her wonder until now.

Charles Dickens

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Groucho Marx

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Tom Peters

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Dag Hammarskjold

For they conquer who believe they can.

John Dryden

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Piet Hein

Conscience is a man's compass.

Vincent Van Gogh