“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
“To try to be better is to be better.” — Charlotte Cushman
“It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.” — Pierre Corneille
“Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” — Hank Aaron
“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.” — Earl Warren
“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.” — Virginia Woolf
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley
“A hug is a great gift. One size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.” — Unknown
“Historians are gossips who tease the dead.” — Voltaire
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
“I think it would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.” — Stephen Hawking
“Alright, who’s the wise guy who turned the light out at the end of my tunnel?” — Tom Zegan
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“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.” — José Saramago
“My heart swings back and forth between the need for routine and the urge to run.” — Unknown
“I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.” — Earl Lovelace
“When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.” — Cary Grant
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” — Tom Stoppard
“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” — Winston Churchill
“There are two types of pains, one that hurts you and the other that changes you.” — Unknown
“Hypocrite – The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” — Vladimir Nabokov
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” — John Irving
“Seven months ago I could give a single command and 541,000 people would immediately obey it; today I can’t get a plumber to come to my house.” — Norman Schwarzkopf
