"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
--Francis Bacon
"We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong
enough... What do you most want to do? That's what I have to
keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."
--Katherine Mansfield
"Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law."
--Bill Vaughn
"Ignorance of the law does not prevent the losing lawyer from collecting his bill."
--Puck magazine
"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be."
--Ellen Burstyn
"Never let yesterday use up today."
--Richard H. Nelson
"Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover."
--Susan Coolidge
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
--Bertrand Russell
"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow."
--Swedish proverb
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn."
--Agatha Christie
"Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are
conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy."
--J. Krishnamurti
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often
attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
--Thomas Szasz
"It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world.
They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn."
--Sue Grafton
"Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking."
--Grenville Kleiser
"Time flies, but you shouldn't."
--Anon
"Not seeing is half-believing."
--Vita Sackville-West
"Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry."
--John Wesley
"Wisely and slow: they stumble that run fast."
--William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators."
--Edward Gibbon
"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
--William James
"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly
sincere in dealing with himself."
--James Russell Lowell
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my
mind."
--Maya Angelou
"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny
them is to be an accomplice to one's own necessary vegetation."
--Gail Sheehy
"You must change in order to survive."
--Pearl Bailey
"You are all you will ever have for certain."
--June Havoc
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
--Benjamin Franklin
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
--Francis Bacon
"Hope is the most treacherous of human fancies."
--James Fenimore Cooper
"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming
better than you are."
--Julius Charles Hare
"Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own.(This is easier said than done.)"
--Jacqueline Briskin
