Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

David Hilbert

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Shirley Hufstedler

She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced. But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude.--Gratitude not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister. Such a change in a man of so much pride, excited not only astonishment but gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not exactly be defined.

Jane Austen

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Glen Buck

Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

James Howell

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

Rachael Ray

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Eric Hoffer

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Ali IbnAbiTalib

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Voltaire