William James-

"  Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does. "

Ayn Rand-

"  A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. "

Mark Twain-

"  A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.  "

Ambrose Bierce-

"  Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. "

Mark Twain-

"  When in doubt tell the truth.  "

Japanese Proverb-

"  Vision without action is a day dream.  Action without vision is a nightmare.  "

Arnold Schwarzenegger-

"  Everything I have ever done in my life has always stayed. I've just added to it...But I will not change. Because when you are successful and you change, you are an idiot. "

Albert Einstein-

"  Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. "

Washington Irving-

"  Kindness in women, not thier beauteous looks, shall win my love. "

Alexander Pope-

"  Never elated when someones oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.  "

Rosa Parks-

"  I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. "

Mark Twain-

"  What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.  "

George Bernard Shaw-

"  Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. "

Kahlil Gibran-

" Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. "

Henry Ward Beecher-

"  Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. "

Danny Kaye-

"  Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can. "

Woody Allen-

"  Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's a pretty good empty experience. "

Pablo Picasso-

"  Action is the foundational key to all success.  "

Benjamin Disraeli-

"  Diligence is the mother of good fortune.  "

Alfred Hitchcock-

" I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."

William James-

"  A chain is no stronger than it's weakest link, and life is after all a chain.  "

Will Rogers-

"  ere's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.  "

Homer Simpson-

"  Hey, can you take the wheel for a second, I have to scratch my self in two places at once.  "

Alfred Hitchcock-

"  Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.  "

Samuel Goldwyn-

"  If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.  "

Robert Benchley-

"  It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.  "

Agatha Christie-

"  I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.  "

George Bernard Shaw-

"  There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. "

James Taylor-

"  That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. "

Thomas Carlyle-

"  A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. "

Agatha Christie-

"  One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. "

Morihei Veshiba-

"  Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.  "

Ritchy Savin-

" When you refuse to take action, you're left with no choice but to wait. "

Jean Jacques Rousseau-

"  Virtue is a state of War and to live in it we always ahve to  combat with ourselves.  "

George Gershwin-

" Life is a lot like jazz...it's best when you improvise. "

May Sarton-

"  Most people have to talk so they wont hear. "

Rosalyn S. Yalow-

"  The excitement of learning separates youth from old age.  As long as you're learning you're not old.  "

Khalil Gibran-

"  Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. "

Victor Hugo-

" A faith is a necessity to a man.  Woe to him who believes in nothing.  "

Margaret Thatcher-

"  I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.  "

Confucius-

"  Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.  "

Thomas Fuller-

"  Great hopes make Great Men. "

Ella Baker-

"  Give light and people will find the way.  "

Carl Segan-

" Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. "

Richard J. Daley-

"  To higher and higher platitudes. "

George Bernard Shaw-

"  If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.  "

John Maynard Keynes-

"  The difficulty lies not in the new ideas but in escaping the old ones which ramify for those brought up as most of us have been into every corner of our minds.  "

Mark Twain-

"  When in doubt tell the truth.  "

Alfred Nobel-

"  Home is where I work and I work everywhere.  "

Japanese Proverbs-

"  Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. "

Bette Davis-

"  Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars. "

Irene Peter-

"  Anyone who thinks there is safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. "

Galileo Galilei-

"  I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forget their use. "

William Durrant-

"  Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. "

Swami Sivananda-

"  Crave for a thing, you will get it.  Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. "

Ayn Rand-

" A creative man is motivated by desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. "

James Allen-

"  A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener or his soul, the director of his life. "

Jim Rohn-

"  Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. "

Albert Camus-

" An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. "

Elbert Hubbard-

"  The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. "

Edith Wharton-

"  If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.  "

Saint Teresa-

"  Accustom yourseld to continuelly to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. "

Woody Allen-

"  Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. "

Friedrich Nietzche-

"  Without music, life would be a mistake. "

Nadia Boulanger-

"  The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.  "

Ambrose Bierce-

"  Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.  "

Samuel Goldwyn-

" A good idea, only be sure to make a copy of everything before getting rid of it.  "

Sam Levenson-

" If you die in an elevator, be sure to push UP."

Virgil Thomson-

"  Let your mind alone, and see what happens. "

Malcolm X-

" A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. "

George Bernard Shaw-

"  A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. "

Ethel Waters-

"  We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. "

Will Rogers-

"  America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. "

Albert Einstein-

" The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. "

Charles Kendall Adams-

" No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. "

Winston Churchill-

" We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. "

Katherine Mansfield-

"  Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery. "

Horace-

" He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. "

Aldous Huxley-

"  I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. "

Mark Twain-

"  Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. "

Rich Cook-

"  Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. "

George Washington-

"  Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. "

Albert Einstein-

"  I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. "

Galileo Galilei-

"  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. "

Aldous Huxley-

"  An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. "

Heraclitus-

"  Nothing endures but change. "

William Durant-

"  Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. "

Eleanor Roosevelt-

" Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. "

Henry Ford-

"  Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. "