" When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. "

Geoffrey F. Abert

" All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence — and then success is sure. "

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

" Crime does not pay … as well as politics. "

Alfred E. Newman

" The jungle is dark but full of diamonds… "

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman US dramatist (1915 – 2005)

" Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. "

Kent Nerburn

" Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair. "

Mario Cuomo

" It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. "

William E. Channing

" The game is afoot. "

Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

" By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand. "

George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002 43rd President of US (1946 – )

" If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge English critic & poet (1772 – 1834)

" There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" As a twig is bent the tree inclines. "

Virgil Roman epic poet (70 BC – 19 BC)

" It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. "

Sigmund Freud Austrian psychologist (1856 – 1939)

" He plants trees to benefit another generation. "

Caecilius Statius, Synephebi (220 BC – 168 BC)

" The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us — this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. "

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

" If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered. "

Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005 English cosmologist and physicist (1942 – )

" Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. "

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists” Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. "

George Washington First president of US (1732 – 1799)

" Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. "

Sir Francis Bacon English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 – 1626)

" To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. "

Arnold Toynbee English historian & historical philosopher (1889 – 1975)

" Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne US author (1804 – 1864)

" It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion. "

Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01

" Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. "

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

" Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise. "

J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 – 1973)

" Better no law than laws not enforced. "

Italian Proverb

" Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. "

Johnson

" Never be bored, and you will never be boring. "

Eleanor Roosevelt US diplomat & reformer (1884 – 1962)

" The best of us must sometimes eat our words. "

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999 British fantasy author

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