Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Oscar Wilde

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

Samuel Johnson

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Emma Goldman

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

Edward Dahlberg

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Orison Swett Marden

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

Stephen Richards

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Edward George BulwerLytton

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Willie Shoemaker

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Lorna Luft

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Kevyn Aucoin