Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

 

 

No one is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus

 

 

 

This world belongs to the enthusiastic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. - Dale Carnegie

 

 

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork. - English Proverb

 

 

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. - John Glenn

 

 

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulations upon anyone's achievement, or express sympathy in sorrow or disappointment. - Lyndon B. Johnson

 

 

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. - Anonymous

 

 

Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. Life's too short to be anything... but happy. - Anonymous

 

 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

 

 

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. - Anatole France

 

 

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. - Desmond Tutu

 

 

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -- and another, in case it doesn't rain. - Mae West

 

 

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. - John Wooden

 

 

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap. - Steve Martin

 

 

I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we're very skeptical. - Arthur C Clarke

 

 

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. - William Shakespeare

 

 

If life were fair Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead. - Johnny Carson

 

 

Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million. - Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

 

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

 

 

 

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. - Arnold J. Toynbee

 

 

Give me ambiguity or give me something else. - Unknown

 

 

 

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed; else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

 

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. - Winston Churchill

 

 

 

He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong

 

 

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. - Epictetus

 

 

The best things in life are free. - Anonymous

 

 

 

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

 

 

 

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of

 

 

 

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the

 

 

 

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. - Malayan Proverb

 

 

 

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop

 

 

 

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward Heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. - Henry Adams

 

 

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up. - Jesse Jackson

 

 

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. - James Bu

 

 

 

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs

 

 

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. - Charles Schumer

 

 

He who spends time regretting the past, loses the present and risks the future. - Quevedo

 

 

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. - Christoph Waltz

 

 

 

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. - Samuel Butler

 

 

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

 

 

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - Desmond Tutu

 

 

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. - John F. Kennedy

 

 

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. - Margaret Thatcher

 

 

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F. Kennedy

 

 

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. - Benjamin Disraeli

 

 

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. - Gandhi

 

 

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus

 

 

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win. - Carl Lewis

 

 

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits. - Anonymous

 

 

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. - Bob Proctor

 

 

I came, I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar

 

 

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

 

 

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. - The Buddha

 

 

 

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa

 

 

 

One-seventh of your life is spent on Mondays. - Unknown

 

 

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. - Thomas Jefferson

Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

 

 

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. - Freeman Dyson

 

 

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them. - Steve Martin

 

 

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. - Lord Byron

 

 

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. - C.S. Lewis

 

 

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. - John Quincy Adams

 

 

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. - Jane Fonda

 

 

Acts of courage shape human history. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. - Robert F. Kennedy

 

 

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich

 

 

It is never too late to become what you might have been. - George Eliot

 

 

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. - Aeschylus