"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.  The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." - William Ellery Channing

"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so." - Lord Chesterfield

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of readiness to die." - G.K. Chesterton

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.  No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." - Lord Chesterfield

"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse." - Chilo

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." - Winston Churchill

"Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Turbulence is life force.  It is opportunity.  Let's love turbulence and use it for change."- Ramsay Clark

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer." - Colette

"Total absence of humor renders life impossible." - Colette

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give." - Charles Caleb Colton, 1825

"Nothing ever goes away." - Barry Commoner

"When anger rises, think of the consequences." - Confucius

"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise." - William Congreve