"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."
Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971)

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success."
Thomas J. Watson

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people."
Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)

"All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance."
Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."
Madonna (1958 - )

"If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters."
Nora Ephron

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
Denis Watley

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."
Hasidic Saying

" After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." "
William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness."
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

"A mind too active is no mind at all."
Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)

"It's foolish to fear what you cannot avoid."
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

"The best armor is to keep out of range."
Italian Proverb

"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