"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin (1903-1977)

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James (1842 - 1910)

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. -- John Atkinson

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. -- Spanish Proverb

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

Motivation cannot take you very far if you don’t have the legs. Lance Armstrong

A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness. James E. Starrs

I thought of that while riding my bike. Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity.

"It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster" - Greg LeMond

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. -- Sallust, 'Jugurthine War,' 41 B.C.

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

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. -- Albert Einstein

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian Proverb

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. -- Irish Proverb

Only those who risk going too far will ever know how far they can go. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship was built for. --William Shield

A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. --David Brinkley

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ---William Feather

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. --Henry David Thoreau

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do, you apologize for the truth. --Benjamin Disreali

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. --John Mason

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Maya Angelou (1928 - )

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. --Arthur Ashe

Humble people don’t think less of themselves - they just think about themselves less.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. Mary Kay Blakely

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. Jean Kerr

"Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity." -- Kahlil Gibran, "On Death," The Prophet, 1923

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt, a favorite saying

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." -- Vernon Law

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" -- Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

"It is much easier to become a father than to be one." -- Kent Nerburn, Theologian, Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994

"How true Daddy's words were when he said: 'All children must look after their own upbringing.' Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -- Anne Frank, 15 July 1944, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain, in "Bringing Up Father," Reader's Digest, September 1937.

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." -- Bill Cosby

"The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage." -- Barbara Kingsolver

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." -- Franklin P. Jones

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." -- Ann Landers

"To marry a second time represents the triumph of hope over experience." -- Samuel Johnson

The only gift is a portion of thyself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can do not great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. Arab Proverb

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. John Wayne

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 1966

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. Ronald Reagan

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it. Author Unknown

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. Jewish Proverb

Make your bargain before beginning to plow. -- Arab Proverb

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. -- Publilius Syrus

Even God cannot change the past. -- Agathon

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -- John Ruskin

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude

Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -- Calvin Coolidge

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. -- Francis Beaumont

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas A. Edison

Be a fountain, not a drain. -- Rex Hudler, quoted in 'Sports Illustrated'

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. -- Cyrus H. Curtis

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -- Jonathan Kozol

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -- Robert Service

A full cup must be carried steadily. -- English Proverb

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.' -- William Ralph Inge

Things are only impossible until they're not. -- Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. -- Henry Ward Beecher

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. -- Marilyn vos Savant

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. -- Colette

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. -- Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. -- Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -- Confucius