“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)

“I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”

Goldie Hawn
US actress & comedienne (1945 - )

“For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.”

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

“Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.”

Dorothy Sarnoff

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”

George Bernard Shaw, “The Devil’s Disciple” (1901), act II
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

“Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left.”

David M. Ogilvy

“Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.”

Dianne Hales

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

Dr. Seuss
US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

Robert Frost
US poet (1874 - 1963)

“Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.”

Jeremy Bentham
English jurist, philosopher, & legal reformer (1748 - 1832)

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”

Nikita Khrushchev
Russian Soviet politician (1894 - 1971)

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

Jules Renard
(1864 - 1910)

“Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!”

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

Seneca
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)

“Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.”

Malcolm Forbes
US art collector, author, & publisher (1919 - 1990)

“After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, ‘No hablo ingles.’”

Ronnie Shakes

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

Epicurus
Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC)

“Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven’t sold it yet. And the ones that aren’t, you don’t want in your life anyway.”

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself., 08-22-04