"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
— William James

"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are."
— Anais Nin

"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
— Sally Kempton

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest things we know."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."
— Henri F. Amiel

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
— Erica Jong

"It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations--past and present--are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia."
— Eric Hoffer

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."
— Benjamin Disraeli

"Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it."
— James Russell

"Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot."
— Haitian Proverb

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."
— Robert Frost

"To know yourself is the ultimate form of aggression."
— (Freudian Psychology)

"We are what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."
— John Foster Dulles

"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."
— Mark Twain

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
— William James

"If we say we talk to God it is called prayer. If we say God talks to us, its called schizophrenia."
— Lily Tomlin

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
— Lily Tomlin

"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is not respect for age. I missed it coming and going."
— J. B. Priestley

"Don't compromise yourself. It's all you've got."
— Janis Joplin

"You can destroy your now by worrying about your tomorrow."
— Janis Joplin

"Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference."
— Unknown

"He who laughs, lasts."
— Mary Pettibone Poole

"Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
— Lewis Grizzard

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
— J. Edgar Hoover

"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful."
— Unknown

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars."
— Tom Jenkins