'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.

Gerhard Kocher

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Anna Cummins

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Hilaire Belloc

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

Randy Travis

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Friedrich Nietzsche

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gongthese are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Sir Winston Churchill

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Bjorn Borg

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Stephen King