"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these." --Ovid "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-- Bill Cosby "A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something." -- Anon. "No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness -- or so good as drink." -- G. K. Chesterton "People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim." --Ann Landers "The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after." -- Tallulah Bankhead "One must lose one's life in order to find it." --Anne Murrow Lindbergh "Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action." -- Henry Chester "They can because they think they can." -- Virgil "Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."
-- Theodore N. Vail "If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious." -- Mignon McLaughlin "Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage." -- Elie Metchnikoff "Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind." -- Timothy Fuller "Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life." -- Muriel Spark "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is." -- Margaret Mitchell "I tried to treat them like me, and some of them weren't." -- Bill Russell (basketball coach, on his players) "Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money." -- Robert H. Jackson "We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it." -- Peter Drucker "You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try – you don't take the risk." -- Rosalynn Carter "One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." -- Henry Moore "You cannot plan the future by the past." -- Edmund Burke "All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking."
-- C. H. Parkhurst "The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime." -- Mignon McLaughlin "Emotion has taught mankind to reason."
-- Marquis de Vauvenargues "Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . . courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced." -- Margaret Truman "All serious daring starts from within." -- Eudora Welty "Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries." -- Everett McKinley Dirksen "Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in the morrow." -- Horace "Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past: / Live this day, a if'twere they last."
-- Bishop Thomas Ken "The life so short, the craft so long to learn." -- Hippocrates |