“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.” — David Hume
“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.” — Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark
“The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.” — Bill Vaughn
“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?” — Vince Lombardi
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” — Dennis Waitley
“If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often.” — Leonard Cohen
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Abraham Lincoln
“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.” — Mark Twain
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.” — Elsa Maxwell
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” — L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“It’s well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being rediscovered with great excitement.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
“When information goes ‘in one ear and out the other,’it’s often because it doesn’t have anything to stick to.” — Joshua Foer
“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.” — Orison Swett Marden
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” — Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
“The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.” — Wendell Willkie
“Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends.” — Tom Waits
“Procrastination is the thief of time.” — Edward Young
“Give thanks to unknown blessings already on their way.” — Native American saying
“It’s okay not to be okay as long as you are not giving up.” — Karen Salmansohn
“Even though we’re a week or so away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. [ed]” — Richard Roeper
“Do the work. Be the prize.” — Unknown
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” — Victor Hugo
“We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.” — D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.” — Mike Ditka
“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me, because I, too, am fluent in silence.” — R. Arnold
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” — Ayn Rand
“It gets late out there early.” — ‘Yogi’ Berra
“Compassion is a verb.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done.” — Cullen Hightower
“You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.” — Barbara Bush
“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.” — Albert Einstein
“A good beginning makes a good end.” — Louis L’Amour
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.” — Miguel de Cervantes
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” — Oliver Goldsmith
“You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.” — E. L. Doctorow
“Don’t just do what makes you happy…do what makes you great.” — Charlie Day
“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” — Audrey Hepburn
“You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you.” — James Baldwin
“There’s many a pessimist who got that way by financing an optimist.” — Unknown