“A friend … awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.” — John O’Donohue
“The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape democracy is open, too.” — Bill Moyers
“A person waiting for their ship to come in will find they are missing the boat.” — Anonymous
“He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.” — Henry George
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” — C.S. Lewis
“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.” — Richard Lamm
“I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing the entirety of man’s knowledge. I use it to look up pictures of cats and get in arguments with strangers.” — Unknown from the Internet
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” — Calvin Coolidge
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” — Saul Bellow
“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!” — C.J. Cherryh
“Many conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.” — Margaret Millar
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.” — Neil Gaiman
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” — Billy Wilder
“To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.” — P.G. Wodehouse
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” — Doug Floyd
“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.” — Eric Hoffer
“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.” — Robert Brault
“The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but it still has to be mowed.” — Anonymous
“The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.” — Bobby Knight
“There is always time for another last minute.” — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” — Oscar Wilde
“The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — Thomas H. Huxley
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” — Thomas Paine
“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” — Mary Kay Ash
“What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
“If you are riding a high horse, there is no way to get off of it gracefully.” — Anonymous
“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.” — Ndo Qubein
“We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely.” — C. S. Lewis
“My toughest fight was with my first wife.” — Muhammad Ali
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” — Hāfez
“Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.” — Adolph Monod
“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” — John F. Kennedy
“Those who cannot remember history are doomed to learn it from Oliver Stone movies.” — John Harkness
“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. — Barbara Kingsolver
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein
“If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it’s having the swans pretend there’s no difference.” — Teena Booth
“Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.” — Fran Lebowitz