Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most
agreeable. - Francis Bacon
No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back. - Turkish proverb
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face
in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half
of the world. - George Dennison Prentice
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to
treat everything as if it were a nail.
- Abe Maslow
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence
to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. - J. Bronowski [The Ascent of Man]
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their
lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James
I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know
what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca
To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
- Bernadette Devlin
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call
'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to
achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes. - Marcel Proust
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.
- Edward Eggleston
Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never
changes. - Lewis Grizzard
Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare
that obscures. - James Thurber
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has
the answer. - Stephen Hawking
Ah, but a man's reach must exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?
- Robert Browning
Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the
headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. - E.L. Doctorow
On Creativity: "Well, if I knew where the songs came from, I'd go there more
often. You just have to wait in attendance most of the time." - Leonard Cohen
They also serve who only stand and wait. - John Milton
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. - Mohammed
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you
give
of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people
are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the
other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more
effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mahatma Gandhi