“If ya ain’t got it in ya, ya can’t blow it out.” — Louis Armstrong
“When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences.” — Dr. Phillip McGraw
“The world makes way for a person who knows where they are going. [ed]” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.” — Erma Bombeck
“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation.” — Rosalind Cartwright
“The more important an activity is to your soul’s evolution, the more resistance you will feel.” — Steven Pressfield
“I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.” — John Green
“I hate to spread rumors, but what else can one do with them?” — Amanda Lear
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” — George MacDonald
“The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something,” — Eric Sevareid
“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.” — Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
“There’s always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little – and it’s always somebody else.” — Cullen Hightower
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“There is a supply for every demand.” — Florence Scovel Shinn
“Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.” — Terry Thomas
“Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.” — William Morris
“Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do… but she’s certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.” — Unknown
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” — Paulo Coelho
“We often succumb to the temptation of a tidy-minded approach when we would be better served by embracing a degree of mess.” — Tim Harford
“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.” — Willa Cather
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
“Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.” — Seneca
“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.” — P. D. James
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.” — George Jean Nathan
“The suspense is terrible… I hope it’ll last.” — Gene Wilder
“Wisdom is not what you know but how quickly you adjust when the opposite proves true.” — Robert Brault
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.” — Lily Tomlin
“You only have to bat 1.000 in two things—flying and heart transplants; everything else, you can go four in five.” — Beano Cook
“Some of the most well-trodden roads lead nowhere.” — Proverb
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” — Albert Einstein
“We’re all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.” — Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
“Why is it that when anything goes without saying, it never does?” — Marcelene Cox
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” — Elvis Presley
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.” — James Joyce
“I don’t like to call it revenge…returning the favor sounds nicer.” — Unknown
“If you want to stand for something, you can’t stand for everything.” — Unknown
“Be careful to leave your children well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. [ed]” — Epictetus
“The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.” — Baltasar Gracián
“To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.” — Mark Twain