• This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it to future generations. [George Bernard Shaw]
  • A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. [Thomas Fuller]
  • The biggest sin of all is sitting on your ass. [Florynce Kennedy]
  • One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. [Virginia Woolf]
  • The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. [Harold Taylor]
  • Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. [Lisa Hoffman]
  • Falling madly in love, that's the secret of life. [Ray Bradbury]
  • Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. [Nora Roberts]
  • A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. [Marcus Aurelius]
  • The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. [Joseph Addison]
  • The true object of all human life is play. [G K Chesterton]
  • Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
  • The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. [Henry Miller]
  • I praise loudly. I blame softly. [Catherine the Great]
  • Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. [Washington Irving]
  • Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. [Latin Proverb]
  • All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. [Lucretius]
  • Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. [Socrates]
  • We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. [Luciano de Crescenzo]
  • Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. [Mother Teresa]
  • Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. [Victor Hugo]
  • Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is taking action in spite of fear.
  • History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. [B C Forbes]
  • Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. [Peter Marshall]
  • Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. [Tom Clancy]
  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. [Galileo Galilei]
  • History is written by the winners.
  • No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it. [Charles Schulz]
  • A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages [Tennessee Williams]
  • A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. [Daniel Webster]
  • Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. [Noam Chomsky]