Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak

Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

Hal Borland

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

Paul Walker

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

Augusto Roa Bastos

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Phillips Brooks

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

Rudyard Kipling

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

Just do what you do best.

Red Auerbach

The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

Source Unknown

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

Clark Gable

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

English Proverb