Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

Chris O'Donnell

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Voltaire

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Harry Browne

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

William Shakespeare

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.

Haruki Murakami

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Francois Rabelais

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Marilyn Monroe

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Haruki Murakami

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

Panayiotis Zavos