Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
We have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say, 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you're just in the way.
- Ani Difranco
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
- From 'The Wisdom of Will Rogers'
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- James Baldwin
I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows, they learned to swim.
- U2, Until The End Of The World
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
- John Lennon, Imagine
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
- Lin Yutang
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'
- Erma Bombeck
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
- Les Brown
Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
- Irving Berlin
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
- Maria Ebner-Eschenbach
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.
- Todd Coomber
It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye.
- James Hetfield, Metallica
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
- George Herbert
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
- Richard Harkness
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Arthur Godfrey
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
- James M. Barrie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An inferiority complex would be a blessing, if only the right people had it.
- Alan Reed
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
- William Halsey
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
- Millard Fuller
You manage things; you lead people.
- Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, USN
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
- Woody Allen
I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
- Tracy Chapman, Unsung Psalms
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
- William Bridges
We are all caught up in an inescapable web of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever effects one directly effects all indirectly.
- Martin Luther King
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Laurence Stern
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
- George Herbert
It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.
- Mahalia Jackson
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love.
- Barbara Sher
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
- Woodrow Wilson
Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
- Frederick The Great
Be yourself, who else is better qualified?
- Frank J. Giblin
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
- Rabbi Hillel
Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
- Tobias S. Gibson
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
- David Comins
The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.
- Cecil B. De Mille
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
- Joe Girard
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
- Dale Carnegie
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a woman is healthy, she is beautiful.
- Martha Matilda Harper
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
- Gloria Steinem
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- Dolores Ibarruri
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
Let us love dogs, let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.
- Maria Konstantinova Bashkirtseff
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
- Audre Lorde
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
- Dorothy Day
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
- Terry McKay, 'An Affair to Remember'
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot
Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
- Beryl Markham
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
- Simone de Beauvoir
I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.
- Mata Hari
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
- Jeremy Schwartz
