"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." - Albert Einstein

"Only a life lived for others is worth living." - 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." - Albert Einstein

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” -Albert Einstein

"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein

"God does not play dice with the universe." -Albert Einstein

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." -Albert Einstein

"When the solution is simple, God is answering." -Albert Einstein

"Watch the stars, and from them learn. -Albert Einstein

"Gravitation can not be held resposible for people falling in love" -Albert Einstein

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -Albert Einstein

"The important thing is to not stop questioning. " -Albert Einstein

Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like no one is watching.
And love like you've never been hurt.
--Mark Twain

When in doubt tell the truth. --Mark Twain

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." --Mark Twain

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." --Mark Twain

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd druther not. --Mark Twain

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again---and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. --Mark Twain

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years. --Mark Twain

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. --Mark Twain

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it. --Mark Twain

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. --Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. --Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. --Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. --Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. --Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. --Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear---not absence of fear. --Mark Twain

Don't let school interfere with your education. --Mark Twain

Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog. --Mark Twain

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. --Mark Twain

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind, blow softly here;
Green sod above, lie light, lie light-
Good night, dear heart, good-night, good-night.
--Mark Twain

"What this power is I cannot say; All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." -William Shakespeare

"Pain pays the income of each precious thing." - William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste.."- Helena from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - William Shakespeare

"Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be." -William Shakespeare

"It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced." -William Shakespeare

"Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits." -William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." -William Shakespeare

"There is a history in all men's lives." -William Shakespeare

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know." -William Shakespeare

"It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit." -William Shakespeare

"There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself." -William Shakespeare

" My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go." -William Shakespeare

"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief." -William Shakespeare

"In false quarrels there is no true valor." -William Shakespeare

"Strong reasons make strong actions." -William Shakespeare

"It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds." -William Shakespeare

"We know what we are, but not what we may be." -William Shakespeare

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend." - Albert Camus –

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." - Albert Schweitzer –

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh –

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." - Buddha –

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." "One can't complain. I have my friends. Someone spoke to me only yesterday." - Eeyore –

"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret." - Marlene Dietrich –

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends." - Richard Bach, Illusions –

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.." - Bilbo Baggins, from "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien-

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." – unknown

"It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them." - La Rochefoucauld –

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain –

"A smile is a window on your face to show your heart is at home." - anonymous -

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us." –unknown-

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's." - Jean Paul Richter –

"There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face." - Eva Hoffman, from "Exit into History" –

"You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you; you have to go to them sometimes." - Winnie the Pooh –

"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them." - Evelyn Waugh –

"Hold a true friend with both your hands." -Nigerian Proverb

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." -unknown

"Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." - Anais Nin –

"The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say." - Kahlil Gibran –

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." - Elbert Hubbard –

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."

"Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance but never at heart." - unknown –

"If you look for the worst in people and expect to find it, you surely will." - Abraham Lincoln –

"No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of these than one would suspect." - William Saroyan –

"It doesn't take strength to hold a grudge; it takes strength to let go of one." -Jesse (John Stamos), Full House

"Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy--and then just listen to what they say." -Dave Joyner

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." -Unknown

"Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars--but you may get the moon." -Carlton Young

"For all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been.'"
-John Greenleaf Whittier

"Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do." -No Time to Cry by Lurlene McDaniel

"I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again." -William Penn

"You never get a second chance to make a good first impression." -Unknown

"All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign." -Dan Pursuit

"Think happy thoughts and you can fly." -Peter Pan

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail." -Muriel Strade

"At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored." -Nathan C. Schaeffer

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -Robert F. Kennedy

"I would rather make my name than inherit it." -W.M. Thackeray

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be." -Abraham Lincoln

"Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn." -Unknown

"You can sit around and wait for the good things to happen to you, or you can go out and make them happen." -Unknown

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Taylor Benson

"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst thing is not to try." -Unknown

"Failure is the path of least persistence." -Unknown

"Patience is counting down without blasting off." -Unknown

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers

"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not." -Albert Brooks

"Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice." -Robert Orben

"There are no speed limits on the road to excellence." -David Johnson

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing." -George Sheehan

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." -Clarence Thomas

"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by." -Annie Dillard

"Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get a leg up." -Dave Weinbaum

"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be." -Jimmy Johnson

"The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them." -James Oliver

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

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." -William Arthur Ward

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin

"Every problem is just an opportunity waiting to be made use of." -Unknown

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. Camus, Albert

Keep sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow-perhaps it all will. Ecclesiasties

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Gandhi, Indira

Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want. Anonymous

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. Agor, Weston H.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. Kaiser, Henry

No man can reveal to you ought, but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Gibran, Kahlil

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. James, William

The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow. Wells, H. G.

There is no failure. Only feedback. Anonymous

Only those who do nothing make no mistakes. Anonymous

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely. Anonymous

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Churchill, Winston

To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E. E. Cummings

You will never find time for anything. you must make it. Buxton, Charles

When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Bell, Alexander Graham

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Anonymous

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. Adams, John Quincy

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Disraeli, Benjamin

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Hare, Augustus

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. Montapert, Alfred A.

Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. Tolkein, J. R. R.

Nothing endures but change. Heractilus

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. Lorimer, George

The saints are the sinners who keep going. Stevenson , Robert Louis

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. Kline, Richard

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Frost, Robert

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but ain't no man got to be common. Paige, Satchel

It isn't whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. Lombardi, Vince

Home run hitters strike out a lot. Jackson, Reggie

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy. King, Dr. Marting Luther Jr.

When the Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He'll ask not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game. Rice, Grantland

At the head of every river lies a spring. Bennie Rice

Turn your face to the sunshine and all shadows fall behind. Keller, Helen

If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things. Van Gogh, Vincent

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Roosevelt, Eleanor Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry. Leiris, Michael

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" Shaw, George Bernard

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Thoreau, Henry David