"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

"They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines."
Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), The Selfish Gene

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

"Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power."
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
Henry C. Link

"The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them."
Tom Morris

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
Francois Rabelais (1494 - 1553)

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."
Rita Mae Brown

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

"Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."
Kathleen Norris

"No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it."
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind."
Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005), (on refusing to give up her seat on the bus)

"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time."
Willem de Kooning (1904 - )

"Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull."
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Caligula

"All appears to change when we change."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
The Buddha

"The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears."
Ellen Goodman (1941 - )

"A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied."
Irish Proverb

"A fool judges people by the presents they give him."
Chinese Proverb

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank."
Woody Allen (1935 - )

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)