"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." - Bertrand Russell

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

"Everything can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Victor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger." - Mark Twain

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus

"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake." - W.C. Fields

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain

"If a man stands on his instinct and there abide, the huge world will come 'round him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do." - Edward Everett

"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with." - Plato

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the Heart" - Helen Keller

"There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk." - Henrick Ibsen

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can." - Sydney Smith

"Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound" - Thomas Jefferson

"We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough." - Helen Keller

"We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." - Forest Witcraft

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right." - Henry Ford

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies." - Seneca

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." - Charles Dickens

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." - Abigail Van Buren

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961

" 'One of these days' is none of these days." - English Proverb

"Men of few words are the best men." - William Shakespeare

"If God is for us, who can be against us?" - Romans 8:31

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." - Theodore Roosevelt

"It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then." - Richard Armour

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."

"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?" - Jay Leno

"'Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give some people." - Tom Masson

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." - Brendan Gill

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"There's no fool like an old fool - you can't beat experience."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place." - H. L. Mencken

"If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward." - Jack Handey

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theismann, football commentator and former player

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"Courage is in every tear you shed." - D.R. Durga

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." - Maya Angelou

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it" - Helen Keller

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God." - Jesus Christ, from the Sermon on the Mount