Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-- Thomas A. Edison

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
-- H. L. Hunt

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-- Ann Landers

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890