Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, feeling the emotions which no one may know until he senses the great weight of responsibility for himself, I must utter my belief in the divine inspiration of the founding fathers.

Warren Harding

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Kahlil Gibran

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Bryant H. McGill

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Carl Sandburg

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

Benjamin Franklin

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Tony Campolo

Now is the age of anxiety.

W. H. Auden

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

Hugh Mackay

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Samuel Goldwyn