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“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.”
Elvis Presley
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.”
John Maynard Keynes
“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.”
Samuel Johnson
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand
“I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.”
Mitch Hedberg
“Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse.”
Alfred Adler
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Critics are men who sit and watch a battle from a high place and come down to shoot the survivors.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”
Woody Allen
“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.”
Emily Dickinson
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“When we think about our strengths, we are strong. When we think about our weaknesses, we are weak.”
Peter A. Cohen
“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.”
— Vladimir Lenin
“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
William James
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
Rumi
“Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.”
Ralph Marston
“Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.”
Mason Cooley
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”
Roy T. Bennett
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. ”
Margaret Mead

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