"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
--Margaret Mitchell
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what
you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of
mankind achieve the second"
--Logan Pearsall Smith
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-
sufficient."
--Michel de Montaigne
"Lord of himself, though not of lands, / And having nothing, yet hath all."
--Henry Wotton
"Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be
here, but you will have ceased to live."
--Lady Nancy Astor
"Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the
hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true."
--Arnold Bennett
"Think nothing done while aught remains to do."
--Samuel Rogers
"We are not all capable of everything."
--Virgil
"Do not do onto others as you would have them do onto you.
Their tastes may not be the same."
--George Bernard Shaw
"As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its
full capacity."
--Victoria Principal
"Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball."
--Billie Jean King
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end
in certainties."
--Francis Bacon
"The basic success orientation is having an optimistic
attitude."
--John DePasquale
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence."
--Helen Keller
"What is now proved was once imagined."
--William Blake
"No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still
have to get out of it."
--Grace Slick
"Do whatever you do intensely."
--Robert Henri
"Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively
insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt
yourself."
--Brendan Francis
"Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it."
--David Guy Powers
"Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without
impulse is a poor makeshift."
--William James
"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom."
--Muriel Spark
"It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not
trying to get them."
--Joanna Field
"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best."
--Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
"Who knows what he is told, must know a lot of things that
are not so."
--Arthur Guiterman
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
--Jean Rostand
"The first step to knowledge is to know that we are
ignorant."
--Lord David Cecil
"The first step to knowledge is to know that we are
ignorant."
--Lord David Cecil
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
--Raymond Linquist
"To change and to improve are two different things."
--German proverb
"It is important to our friends that we are unreservedly
frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not."
--Mignon McLaughlin
"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short
visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers."
--Walter Hagen
