“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do—which is… why we have so few thinkers.” — Henry Ford
“The emotions have … their own sense of scale. In the emotional world a small thing can touch the heart and the imagination every bit as much as something impressively gigantic.” — Henry Beston
“Know that some storms are just trying to wipe you clean…” — Alejandro Agüero
“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.” — Alfred Hitchcock
“Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.” — Joss Whedon
“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.” — Norman Mailer
“People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.” — Jeremy Collier
“To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.” — Jean-Luc Godard
“You should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes.” — Daniel Dennet
“A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.” — Scott Allen
“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.” — Willa Cather, My Ántonia
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” — Harper Lee
“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.” — Jack Kerouac
“Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.” — Meghan Daum
“If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.” — Donald Draper, Mad Men
“Don’t be so quick to dismiss outlandish ideas. There is a fine line between stupid and stupendous.” — Unknown
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” — Rudyard Kipling
“Somebody said to me not too long ago, ‘Until you’re twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve’, and I really loved that – the idea that you wear who you are on your face.” — Jennifer Lopez
“Fun is about as good a habit as there is.” — Jimmy Buffet
“I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.” — Agatha Christie
“Whatever good things we build end up building us.” — Jim Rohn
“What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.” — Ellen Goodman
“What you have done is little compared to what you can do.[ed]” — Grant Cardone
“Nature abhors a vacuum… but not as much as cats do.” — Lee Entrekin
“One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes.” — Arabic Proverb
“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.” — Thomas Fuller
“It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.” — Lou Holtz
“All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.” — Baruch Spinoza
“Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn’t necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.” — Phil Jackson
“Today I am willing to step up to the inner mirror, and with honesty, realize my truths.” — Gina Charles
“Young at heart. Slightly older in other places.” — Unknown
“Integrity, the choice between what is convenient and what is right.” — Tony Dungy
“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” — Miles Davis
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” — Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
