"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to
live to purpose."

-- Michel de Montaigne

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must
write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What
one can be, one must be."

-- Abraham Maslow

"Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your
mind is on parade."

-- Dr Samuel Johnson

"Eating words has never given me indigestion."

-- Winston Churchill

"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."

-- Thomas J. Watson

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

-- Mark Twain

"As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a
prosperity of kindness and decency."

-- Caroline Kennedy

"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a
cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a
successful executive."

-- Scott Adams

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is
given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always
been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

-- Robert Frost

"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes
us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."

-- Orison Swett Marden

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things
are tough, you fight one more round."

-- James Corbett

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you
feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the
inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you
have found that attitude, follow it."

-- James Truslow Adams

"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in
complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for
change is the essence of life."

-- Anatole France

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not
only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to
the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have
found that when I silently commune with people they give up
their secrets also -- if you love them enough."

-- George Washington

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way
yourself once in a while."

-- Josh Billings