I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

To laugh often and much;<br/>to win the respect of intelligent people<br/>and the affection of children;<br/>to earn the appreciation of honest critics<br/>and endure the betrayal of false friends;<br/>to appreciate beauty;<br/>to find the best in others;<br/>to leave the world a bit better,<br/>whether by a healthy child,<br/>a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;<br/>to know even one life has breathed easier<br/>because you have lived.<br/>This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M Scott Peck

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Phoebe Cary

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Marquis de Sade

Design is people.

Jane Jacobs

If freedom isn't worth dying for, then...what is it really worth?

Timothy Pina

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

Denzel Washington

If you are born poor, it is not your mistake. But if you die poor it is your mistake.

Bill Gates

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

Irvin S. Cobb

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Friedrich Nietzsche