“I wonder how much talent has evaporated from the world for lack of ambition to drive it.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.” — Charles Peguy

“Pick battles big enough to matter; small enough to win.” — Jonathan Kozel

“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.” — John Singer Sargent

“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.” – Charles Dickens

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela

“Don’t open a can of worms without knowing how to get the worms back inside.” – Mortimer B. Zuckerman

“I Was Going To Quit All My Bad Habits. But Then It Occurred To Me That No One Likes A Quitter.” – Unknown

“Busy is a decision…You don’t find the time to do things — you make the time to do things.” – Jonathan Fields

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” – Joseph Joubert

“Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde

“If it didn’t matter, you wouldn’t be thinking about it.” – Unknown

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” – James Thurber

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford… then I want to move in with them.” – Phyllis Diller

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.” ― C.S. Lewis

“Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do or think what you think. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.[ed]” ― Malcolm X

“The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.” ― Unknown

“In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“At twenty, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at thirty, we worry about what it’s thinking of us; at forty, we discover it isn’t thinking about us at all.” ― Anonymous

“Do not handicap the children by making their lives too easy.[ed]” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.” ― Voltaire

“My (golf) clubs are well used, but unfortunately not used well.” ― Jack Burrell

“The wish is father to the thought.” ― based on Shakespeare (King Henry IV)

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” ― Augustine of Hippo

“Make your bargain before beginning to plow.” ― Arab Proverb

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot

“It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.” ― Elon Musk

“You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.” ― A Universal Paradox

“To stay out of debt….act your wage!” ― Unknown