“To find yourself, think for yourself.” — Socrates
“When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.” — Dr. Phil
“Trust but with caution because sometimes even your own teeth will bite your tongue.” — Unknown
“Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.” — Joey Bishop
“People can bring up your dirty laundry, but they can’t make you wear it.” — Unknown
“A person knowing the power of the word becomes very careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know that they do ‘not return void.’ Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.” — Florence Scovel Shinn
“I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.” — Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
“Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.” — Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“As nervous as a cat in a room full of rockers.” — Anonymous
“Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.” — African Proverb
“A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.” — Charles Gord
“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can’t blame them for never wanting to live without them again. [ed]” — Robert James Waller
“Men don’t care what’s on TV… they only care what else is on TV.” — Jerry Seinfeld
“The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” — Federico Fellini
“A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” — Duke Leto Atreides from Dune
“Somewhere between the start of the trail and the end is the mystery why we choose to walk.” — Unknown
“The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.” — Robert Brault
“No one is you and that is your power.” — Dave Groh
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” — Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899
“We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.” — Alfred North Whitehead
“Don’t be irreplaceable; if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.” — Anonymous
“Some folk want their luck buttered.” — Thomas Hardy
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” — Brain Tracy
“I keep reading between the lies.” — Goodman Ace
“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.” — Evan Esar
“Space is the breath of art.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.” — Milton Friedman
“People who have stake in their society, protect that society…” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson; without them, I’m fat and 60.” — Jack Nicholson
“They are so knowing, that they know nothing.” — Terence
“Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.” — Clive Barnes
“The amount of energy necessary to refute falsehoods is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.[ed]” — Alberto Brandolini
“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.” — Diogenes
“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.” — Bob Marley
“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” — James Gordon
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” — Kahlil Gibran
“I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.” — Martina Navratilova