Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Sir Winston Churchill

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

Eric Ries

They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doing machines.

Daniel Webster

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

Source Unknown

Now ... if you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.

Terry Pratchett

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Sir Winston Churchill

A king is history's slave.

Leo Tolstoy

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden Econ

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker, In Search of Our M

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Huang Po

Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron