"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams

"A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer." - Joseph Addison

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison, The Spectator, March 17, 1911

"A man can do all things if he but wills them." - Leon Battista Alberti

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Lane Allen

"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic." - Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975

"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." - Henri F. Amiel

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." - Walter Anderson

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been." - Diane Arbus

"Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth." - Archimedes

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." - Aristotle

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." - Aristotle

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will." - John Atkinson

"If you are a terror to many, then beware of many." - Ausonius