" Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath. "

Oscar Levant (1906 – 1972)

" If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. "

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003 US actress & television talk show host (1954 – )

" A stumble may prevent a fall. "

English Proverb

" Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. "

Epictetus Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)

" The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. "

Hemingway

" Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. "

Don Marquis US humorist (1878 – 1937)

" Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. "

William Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens”, Act 3 scene 1 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. "

William F. Buckley Jr., “The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler”

" We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. "

Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. "

Robert Bresson

" Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. "

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005 British fantasy author

" The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. "

Marilyn Monroe US actress (1926 – 1962)

" Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. "

Lazarus Long, “Time Enough for Love”

" Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight. "

The London Times

" I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. "

J. D. Salinger US novelist & short story author (1919 – )

" The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. "

Henry Ward Beecher US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 – 1887)

" Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice. "

John Barrymore US actor (1882 – 1942)

" We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. "

Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. "

John Steinbeck, East of Eden US novelist (1902 – 1968)

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

Robert Frost US poet (1874 – 1963)

" The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal. "

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

" Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten "

B.F. Skinner

" Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. "

Ralph Waldo Trine

" Sometimes there are no answers. "

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon

" Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. "

Henry Kissinger US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 – )

" Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. "

Yiddish proverb

" Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. "

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 – 1924)

" If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. "

Rene Descartes French mathematician & philosopher (1596 – 1650)

" This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. "

Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

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