“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” — Gerry Spence
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” — Mother Teresa
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!” — Pericles
“Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.” — Stieg Larsson
“You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.” — Arthur Ashe
“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late” — Felix Frankfurter
“Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.” — Maya Angelou
“When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot.” — Larry Lujack
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“Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor.” — Irish Proverb
“Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.” — Stanislaw Lec
“We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.” — Robert Benchley
“A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they’re loaded or not.” — Franklin Jones
“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.” — John Shirley
“When you feel irresistible, you’re hard to resist.” — John Updike
“There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston
“As far as I’m concerned, ‘whom’ is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.” — Calvin Trillin
“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.” — Stephen King
“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.” — Neal A. Maxwell
“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” — Rachel Zoe
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” — Alfred Adler
“Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.” — Neil Armstrong
“You are never stronger…than when you land on the other side of despair.” — Zadie Smith
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” — Jean de La Fontaine
“When a person tells you, ‘I’ll think it over and let you know’ — you know.” — Olin Miller
“Potential has a shelf life.” — Margaret Atwood
“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” — Booker T. Washington
“Anything that’s truly real can stand up to scrutiny.” — Carl Sagan
“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.” — Lawrence Durrell
“Contentment is the wealth of nature.” — Socrates
“Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.” — Megan Devine
“Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. ” — Alexander Graham Bell
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein
“Doubt grows with knowledge.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.” — Daniel Coleman
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” — Pliny the Younger
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.” — Cary Grant
