A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
John Paul Jones
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
William Feather
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Frederick William Faber
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Robert Quillen
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
