Bertrand Russell

 The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. 

- Bertrand Russell

Albert Schweitzer

 Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 

- Albert Schweitzer

Horatio Nelson

 Desperate affairs require desperate measures. 

- Horatio Nelson

Ulysses S. Grant

 I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. 

- Ulysses S. Grant

Ayn Rand

 A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. 

- Ayn Rand

Andrew Jackson

 The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. 

- Andrew Jackson

John Lennon

 When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. 

- John Lennon

Sophia Loren

 Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. 

- Sophia Loren

Pope John Paul II

 Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. 

- Pope John Paul II

Oscar Wilde

 An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. 

- Oscar Wilde

Leonardo da Vinci

 A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. 

- Leonardo da Vinci

Geoffrey Chaucer

 Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. 

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Clint Eastwood

 I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. 

- Clint Eastwood

Mark Twain

 Golf is a good walk spoiled. 

- Mark Twain

Heraclitus

 The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three. 

- Heraclitus