When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. – George Moore
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. – E.B. White (1899-1985)
What worries you masters you. – Haddon W. Robinson
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -Dale Carnegie
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured. – Indian Proverb
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. – Publilius Syrus
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. – Seneca
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. – Lord Chesterfield
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. – Natalie Goldberg
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Bertha Calloway
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. – Sir Winston Churchill
You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. – Barbara Hall
It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J.K. Rowling
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade? – Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Rodin
You always pass failure on the way to success. – Mickey Rooney
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for. – Will Rogers (1879-1935)
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. – George Burns (1896-1996)
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. – Ayn Rand (1905- 1982)
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. – Isaac Asimov, Foundation’s Edge (1920- 1992)