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“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
— William James
“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”
— Carl Jung
“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.”
— Voltaire
“Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech. ”
— Albert Einstein
“A man only lives once and the best strategy is always to make most of it. Success is not the only reason for existence.”
— Dong Nguyen
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
— Plato
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
— Aldous Huxley
“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
— A.A. Milne
“Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life.”
— Dan Millman
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Don't spend major time on minor things.”
— Jim Rohn
“Laws are like cobwebs; they look impressive but catch nothing.”
— Olin West
“Longevity is a fleeting moment that lasts forever.”
— Vidal Sassoon
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.”
— Jim Rohn
“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Problems remain as problems because people are busy defending them rather than finding solutions.”
— Celestine Chua
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”
— Aristophanes
“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.”
— Roger Ebert
“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
— Aldous Huxley

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