“The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly.” — Unknown
“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.” — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.” — Clarence Darrow
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The first page sells that book; the last page sells your next book.” — Mickey Spillane
“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.” — Samuel Butler
“I like terra firma – the more firma, the less terra.” — George S. Kaufman
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Unknown
“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.” — Bette Davis
“When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.” — Gordon Atkinson
“You win some, you lose some, and then there’s that little known third category.” — Al Gore
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” — Latin Proverb
“Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.” — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” — Indira Gandhi
“He who laughs, lasts.” — Mary Pettibone Poole
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” — William Arthur Ward
“To all my doubters, thank you very much because you have also pushed me.” — Usain Bolt
“When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.” — Lyndon Johnson
“Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.” — Italian Proverb
“When my circle got smaller, my vision got clearer.” — Unknown
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.” — George Santayana
“I usually take a two hour nap from 1 to 4.” — ‘Yogi’ Berra
“The talent should speak for itself.” — Jennifer Hudson
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.” — Stephen King
“You call it procrastination. I call it thinking.” — Aaron Sorkin
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” — Joseph Campbell
“One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.” — Woodrow Wilson
“The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.” — Harold B. Lee
“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Real life is under no obligation to be convincing.” — Neil Gaiman
“Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.” — George Will
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” — Charles Schaefer
“I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.” — Dorothy Parker
“Be a bridge, not a beacon.” — Jocelyn Wyatt,executive director of IDEO.org
“We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.” — Marianne Williamson
“Sometimes you find more than you are looking for.” — Unknown
“Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.” — Quentin Crisp