“Everybody has a plan, ’till they get hit.” — Mike Tyson
“If your writing doesn’t keep you up at night, it won’t keep anyone else up either.” — James M. Cain
“How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!” — Belva Plain
“My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
“A person’s right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.” — John Rawls
“Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.” — Unknown
“You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.” — Zig Ziglar
“The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.” — W.C. Fields
“What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.” — Alain
“Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.” — Chuck Palahniuk
“The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?'” — Jeff Bezos
“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.” — Lily Tomlin
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” — Art Buchwald
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” — John F. Kennedy
“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.” — Mother Jones
“An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.” — Auren Hoffman
“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.” — Lao Tzu
“Hobbies are neither inconsequential or trivial—they’re an opportunity for us to shed the pretense of what we do for what we really are.” — Alex Preston
“Whenever one person stands up and says, ‘Wait a minute, this is wrong,’ it helps other people to do the same.” — Gloria Steinem
“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.” — Slappy White
“At the foot of the lighthouse it is dark.” — Japanese Proverb
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” — Pearl S. Buck
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard
“The older you get, the better you realize you were.” — George Carlin
“Find the one who hears your music the same as you do.” — Topher Kearby
“My mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” — Pablo Picasso
“The spirited horse, which will of itself strive to beat in the race, will run still more swiftly if encouraged.” — Ovid
“It’s not too far; it just seems like it is.” — ‘Yogi’ Berra
“Be somebody nobody thought you could be.” — William Chapman
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” — David Allen
“The person who clears the path ultimately controls its direction, just as the canvas shapes the painting.” — Ryan Holiday
“In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan; of course, he would have been only 12 years old.” — Jerry Sloan, American basketball player & coach
“Money without brains is always dangerous.” — Napoleon Hill
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” — Robert Kennedy
“I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never in my hands.” — Gordon Atkinson
“It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.” — Harrison Ford (as Indiana Jones)
“[in business] Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” — Peter Drucker
“Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.” — Jacques Bossuet
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.” — Billy Wilder
“As my mother used to say, ‘You’ll get unconditional love from me when you’ve earned it.'” — Drew Hastings