“If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.” — Fred Menger
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” — Thomas Pynchon
“The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.” — Thomas Merton
“Some people have no idea of what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” — George Carlin
“The most basic way to get someone’s attention is this: Break the pattern.” — Dan and Chip Heath
“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.” — Mao Tse-Tung
“Families are the training ground for forgiveness.” — Anne Lamott
“If love was easy, there would be almost no music.” — Jake Johannsen
“We have this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand… and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it while it offers its best.[ed]” — Marie Beyon Ray
“Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.” — Louis L’Amour
“I have learned [more] from my dogs than from all the great books I have read. The wisdom of my dog is the product of his inability to conceal his wants. There are no games. No professor told me that I might live a more successful life if I simply ask for love…when I needed it.” — Gerry Spence, trial lawyer
“If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment.” — Dave Allen
“The start is what stops most people.” — Don Shula
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” — Rumi
“Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.” — H. H. Swami Tejomayananda
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.” — Kenneth H. Blanchard
“What is possible is not defined by what is probable.” — Mark Sanborn
“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.” — Doug Larson
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” — Albert Einstein
“It isn’t enough to love, we must prove it.” — St. Therese of Lisieux
“What cannot be said is sometimes wept.” — Unknown
“A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.” — Muhammad Ali
“You don’t need to attend every argument you’re invited to.” — Jeanne Rausch
“Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” — Anonymous
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” — Ashley Montagu
“The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.” — Ann Landers
“The more one judges, the less one loves.” — Honore de Balzac
“It is not important to have said a thing first, or best – or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.” — Idries Shah
“The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures they will ever see.” — Via Bestpaths
“Madness takes its toll; please have exact change.” — Unknown
“As I don’t know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.” — Paulo Coelho
“Don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.” — Adam Lindsay Gordon
“Be someone who makes someone else look forward to tomorrow.” — Anonymous
“Staircase wit – thinking of the perfect retort too late, i.e. after you have left the room.” — Based on the Urban Dictionary
