Quotes

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. -- Will Rogers, 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. -- Kenneth Hildebrand

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. -- Rod Steiger

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting thing in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. -- Denis Diderot, Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796

Life isn't long enough for love and art. -- W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

I am never afraid of what I know. -- Anna Sewell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. -- Cicero

Don't fall before you're pushed. -- English Proverb

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -- John Ruskin

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. -- Bulgarian Proverb

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. -- Demosthenes

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -- Leo Burnett

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. -- Charlotte Bronte

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. -- Bernard M. Baruch, 1940

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. -- T. S. Eliot

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. -- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. -- Colette, 'Freedom,' 1908

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. -- Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. -- Frank A. Clark

We are most alive when we're in love. -- John Updike

Guilt is a rope that wears thin. -- Ayn Rand

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. -- Louis L'Amour, 'Bendigo Shafter'

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -- Pablo Picasso

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. -- Terence

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. -- Sam Rayburn

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do. -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. -- Pico Iyer, Time

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. -- Max L. Forman

It is not enough to aim; you must hit. -- Italian Proverb

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being. -- Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. -- James Rippe, M.D.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. -- Erich Segal

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. -- Joseph Farrell

Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens. -- Stella Terrill Mann

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win. -- Edward Gibbon

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. -- Thomas Fuller