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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams

"Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality."

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

James Boswell

"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."

Claude M. Bristol

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

Charles Caleb Colton

"To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement.  Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem."

Nathaniel Branden

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

"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods."

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

"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

Ettiene De Grellet

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about his critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."

Christopher Hampton

"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit." 

Demosthenus, Greek orator and politician (384 BC - 322 BC)

Third Olynthiac

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.  It is never any use to oneself." 

Oscar Wilde

"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived.  Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee." 

Immanuel Kant

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved." 

Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." 

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English author, mathematician, and philosopher

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward." 

Soren Kierkegaard  (1813-1855) Danish philosopher

"I love deadlines.  I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." 

Douglas Adams

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than live up to them." 

Alfred Adler

"The brave ones are those who choose to lay down their sword in compassion instead of lashing out in violence.  And until we all become brave, we won't know the luxury of peace."

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only by night."

-Edgar Allan Poe

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who do not ask remains a fool forever." 

Old Chinese Proverb