Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
-- Lawrence Bixby

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
-- Epictetus

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
-- Charles A. Dana

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
-- Doris Lessing

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
-- Oscar Wilde

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
-- Napoleon Hill

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
-- James Thurber

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
-- Lord Byron

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
-- English Proverb

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
-- Harry Golden

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
-- John W. Gardner

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
-- Barry LePatner

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
-- Arnold Toynbee

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
-- Anonymous