“Danger breeds best on too much confidence.” — Pierre Corneille
“…You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” — Bob Dylan
“You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.” — Gabriela Mistral
“We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.” — Sinclair Lewis
“You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved
“Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.” — Julian Weber Gordon
“To live forever, die in the service of others.” — Debasish Mridha, M.D.
“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” — Sylvia Plath
“Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.” — Jean Giraudoux
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” — Jim Rohn
“You don’t have to enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.” — Annie Leibovitz
“Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.” — Mooji
“When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” — William James
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” — Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.” — Virgil
“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.” — Charles Caleb Colton
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” — Golda Meir
“What can you say when your husband says: ‘You can’t expect me to remember your birthday, when you never look any older?’” — Toni Anderson
“Everyone has demons. What matters is how you tame them.” — Unknown
“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.” — Shana Alexander
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” — Joshua Graham
“He’d steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.” — Wilson Mizner
“Rumor grows as it goes.” — Virgil
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” — Steve Jobs
“One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.” — Jean Giraudoux
“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.” — P. J. O’Rourke
“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. — Walter Lippmann
“As the Island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance—the boundary between the known and unknown.” — Marcelo Gleiser
“How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.” — William Rotsler
“They stayed away in droves.” — Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
“Your illusions are part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.” — William Faulkner
“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.” — Plato
“Politics is the art of marshaling hatreds.” — Unknown
“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.” — Oliver Herford
“A person is not old as long as they are seeking something. [ed]” — Jean Rostand
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
“Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.” — Rune Leknes
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.” — William Arthur Ward