"Ignorance is its own punishment." -Unknown

"The price of greatness is responsibility." -Winston Churchill

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time, I am right." -Albert Einstein

"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either." -Golda Meir

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed be their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are; life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" -Thomas Jefferson

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." -Winston Churchill

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." -Theodore Roosevelt

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of this creed - we hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal…" -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing pains some people more than having to think." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother with in doubt." -Woodrow Wilson

"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it." -Benjamin Franklin

"There is no higher religion than that of human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed." -Albert Schweitzer

"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To live in fear is not to live at all." - Unknown

"Success is peace of mind in knowing that you did your best." -John Wooden

"Excellence is to do a common thing is an uncommon way." -Booker T. Washington

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive." -Dale Carnegie

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." -Aristotle

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." -Confucius

"A "no" uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." -Mahatma Gandhi

"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart." -Benjamin Franklin

"It's better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of your pride." -Unknown

"Failure is not an option..." -Gene Kranz

"If God thought nudity was ok, than we would have all been born naked." -Unknown

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Logic is in the eye of the logician." - Gloria Steinem

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." - Gail Godwin

"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy." - Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"The man who invented the eraser had the human race pretty well sized up." - Unknown

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." -James Michener

"There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion" -Albert Einstein

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." -G. K. Chesterton

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." -Thomas Szasz, M.D.

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." -B. C. Forbes

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." -Mother Teresa of Avila

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." -Mother Teresa of Avila

"Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." -Sam Walton

"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God" -Albert Einstein The Human Side, 1954

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." -Albert Einstein

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable receiving." -Albert Einstein

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once" -Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." -Lee Iacocca

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." -Unknown

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." -Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." -Unknown

"A man is known by the silence he keeps." -Oliver Herford, American author (1863-1935)

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." -Dave Tyson Gentry

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power." -Charles deGualle

"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in." -Arlo Guthrie

"Communism is like one big phone company." -Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)

"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." -Unknown

"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit." -Robert Yates

"Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment chop wood and carry water." -Ancient Chinese Proverb

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." -Swedish Proverb

"Love teaches even asses to dance." -French Proverb

"Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose." -Turkish proverb

"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow." -Swedish Proverb

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." -Leonardo da Vinci

"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." -Leonardo da Vinci

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." -John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Washington, D.C. January 20, 1961

"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular." -Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." -D. H. Lawrence

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -Beverly Sills

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Bill Watterson, cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." -F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." -Chinese Proverb

"Ask advice only of your equals." -Danish Proverb

"Use soft words and hard arguments." -English Proverb

"Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear." - Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

"It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places." - Paul Reiser

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - George Smith Patton

"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided." - Alexander Hamilton

"Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live." - Adrienne Rich

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." - Helen Keller

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Patrick Henry, 1736 - 1799

"It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain." -Mark Twain

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, He must approve the homage of Reason rather than that of blindfolded Fear. " -Thomas Jefferson

"Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of [hu]mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. " -Robert Owen

"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separated. " -Ulysses S. Grant

"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley to deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me." - Charles R. Swindoll

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. " -Thomas Jefferson

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. " -Albert Einstein

"One must reconsider their personal faith, especially when their faith dictates that such questioning is not permissible." - Unknown

"What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." -Unknown

"Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you deal with it." -Unknown

"If rabbits feet are lucky, what the hell happened to the rabbit?" -Unknown

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." -Unknown

"Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them..." -Unknown

"Don't let the sun go down on your anger." -Ephesians 4:26

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; It is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -Seneca Proverb

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -Booker T. Washington

"Success is a journey, not a destination." -Ben Sweetland

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; It is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; It is in yourself alone." -Orison Swett Marden

"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." -Steve Prefontaine

"Pain is only weakness leaving the body." -Unknown

"Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once." -Julius Caesar

"Some individuals dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them." -Beth Lukens

"Life is about feeling someone pushing from behind and realizing that it's you." -Gatorade

"Sometimes silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice." -Unknown

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." -Eric Hoffer

"Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the Universe, and he will believe you.. tell him that the bench has wet paint upon it, and he'll have to touch it to be sure." -Unknown

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transformation was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another." -Unknown

"Health is the slowest possible rate at which a person can die." -Unknown

"Savor every minute; not every dime." -Citibank

"Be the change you want to see in the world." -Gandhi

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." -Hyman G. Rickover

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

"For what if you don't share the state's religion? Are you sure that you don't want to separate church and state?" - Unknown

"Neither destiny nor fate can predict the future for the determined soul." -Unknown

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr, 1885 - 1962

"Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive." - Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk

"Nobody said it would be easy; they just said it would be worth it." - Baltimore's Comcast Marathon

"They say that love is four-letter word.. They were wrong... Sacrifice has nine letters." -Unknown

"Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I will remember. Involve me, and I will understand." -Confucius

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." -Steven Wright

"Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like no one’s watching." -Unknown

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." -Carl Bard

"No one wants to live to be 100 years old until they are 99." -Nova Andre

"To live in the hearts of those left behind is to never really die." -Thomas Cambell

"You have to think that you can't quit. Your brain wants to quit, but you have to fight it. It has nothing to do with speed, and everything to do with finishing." - Abe Weintraub, 90, has completed 9 New York City Marathons since age 80

"Don't ever accept anyone else's preconceived limitations. If there's something you want to do, there isn't any reason you can't do it." - Amy Dodson, running amputee

"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." - John "the Penguin" Bingham

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

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short, again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, And spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; And who, at least, if he fails, At least fails while doing greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls Who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Let there be no secret on how to be successful. In fact, it is quite easy. Find an opportunity and be successful at it... And when you cannot find an opportunity, MAKE an opportunity and be successful at it.. Then repeat this process over and over until people take note of your ability to be successful." - Raghu Rau (Motorola GTSS)

"There is no substitute, and there never will be, for true competence." - Unknown

"Some people look at the world and say 'why'. Some people look at the world and say 'why not'? " - George Bernard Shaw

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."  - Voltaire

"At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty -- and thus a good unto itself -- but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole." - Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, Chief Justice REHNQUIST, Supreme Court of the United States

"More than models and equations, profitability is a way of thinking. Physics tells us about physical energy. Profitability tells us about financial energy. No profit means no energy, no ability to play in the future, no ability to build the future." - "The Art of Profitability" - Adrian Slywotzky

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time." -  Marabel Morgan

"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth." - Isaac Newton

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong, 1969

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz

"Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator.... and change has its enemies." - Robert Kennedy

"A stock's historic performance is not representative nor can it be an accurate prediction of future performance. When it comes to people, the exact opposite is true." - Unknown

"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."  - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1954

"Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face." - Jacques Chirac, 1986

"Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease." Jimmy Carter, 1980

"It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice." - Charles Peguy, 1943

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." - William Orton, president of Western Union, in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell tried to sell the company his invention

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - Harry Warner, Warner Bros., as movies with sound made their debut in 1927.

"We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle, 325, B.C.E.

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God give us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, for his widow, and his orphan-- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." - Abraham Lincoln, 04 March 1865, Second Inaugural address

"The mere absence of war is not peace." - John F. Kennedy, 14 January 1963, State of the Union address

"How much easier it is to be critical than be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli, 24 January 1860

"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues." - George F. Will, 1976

"To avoid criticism: Say nothing, Do nothing, Be nothing." - Unknown

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton

"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." - Napoleon Hill

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegie

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." - Bruce Lee

"There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them." - Robert J. Ringer

"Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance to the problem." - John Galsworthy

"Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present." - Peter Drucker

“The pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger.” - Unknown

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Right is its own defense." - Bertoit Brecht

"The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed." - Chinese Proverb

"A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow." - General George S. Patton

"You never succeed in technology, business, or anything by following the others." - Masura Ibuka, the co-founder of SONY

"You can't add more days to your life.. but you CAN add life to your remaining days." - Unknown

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." - Sydney J. Harris

"We Don't Pay Taxes. Only the Little People Pay Taxes." - Leona Helmsley (Part of testimony of U.S. vs. Helmsley: 1989)

"Thinkers perish, thoughts don't." - Malcolm Forbes

"If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked rips, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you."  Million Dollar Baby (2004)

"The best description of socialized medicine can be best summarized by comparing it to a high school marching band thinking they are actually helping the football team win." - Matthew V. Rabinowitz

"Never eat more than you can lift." - Miss Piggy, 1975