"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives." - A. Sachs

"Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." - Saint Basil

"It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things." - Saint Francis De Sales

"Promote yourself, but do not demote another." - Israel Salanter

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth." - Johann von Schiller

"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully

"Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony." - Seneca (3 BC - 65 AD)

"This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing." - William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live." - George Bernard Shaw

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." - Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902

"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." - Sydney Smith

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can." - Sydney Smith

"Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night.  Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish.  And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" - Robert Louis Stevenson

"May you live all the days of your life." - Jonathon Swift

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time." - Herbert Bayard Swope

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi