"To dream of a person you wish to be, is to waste the person you are."

"No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears."

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try again."

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Twain

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Einstein

"We are wiser than we know."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, you have time to do something about it."

"Wisdom is only granted to those who find it themselves."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." Robert Frost

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

"We should never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people try to bear three kinds --- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." Edward Everett Hale

"Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is one of curiousity.  My crime is of outsmarting you, something you can never forgive me for." The Mentor

"I guess when all is said and done you are who you believe you are...and that should be good enough for everybody else." Susan Tamol

"Who knows who you really are? A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading...." Yevgeny Zamyatin

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

"I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old be merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." Douglas MacArthur, New York Times, June 8, 1984

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path leave a trail."

"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make Earth happy." Julia Carney

"All sins are attempts to fill voids." Simone Weil

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex." Katharine Hepburn

"The great question ... which I have not been able to answer ... is, `What does woman want?'" Sigmund Freud

"Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friederick Nietzsch

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." Leo Aikman

"Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." Carl Sandburg

"Each new day is a gift from God. How you live it your gift to him."

"People as individuals are usually wise but people in large groups are moronic."

"Some people make the world special just by being in it."

"Life: we laugh and laugh, then cry and cry, then feebler laugh, then die." Twain

"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Twain

"The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!" Twain

"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle there."

"Although the tongue weighs very little, most people have trouble holding it."

"Some folks are wise, and some are otherwise."

"Beware the wrath of a quiet man." Chinese Proverb

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." Malcolm X

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be" Goethe

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." C. G. Scott

"It is such a secret place, the land of the tears." Antoine se Saint-Exupery

"Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path. But the lesson to be learned is always our own."

"Things do not change. We change" Henry David Thoreau

"I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught." Winston Churchill

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt." Max Lerner

"Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angles without realizing it." Hebrews 13:2

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." Abe Lincoln

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." Alexander Graham Bell

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." Don Knuth

"Crazy men see ghosts-sane men ignore them."

"What lies behind us and what lies between us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck." Linda Ellerbee

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission." Eleanor Roosevelt