"Being on the tightrope is living;
everything else is waiting."
- Karl Wallenda

"Men have become the tools of their tools."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"Forgive your enemies,
but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)