Dorothea Brande

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
- Dorothea Brande

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Things forbidden have a secret charm.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Josh Billings

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
- Josh Billings

Marion D. Hanks

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!
- Marion D. Hanks

Woodrow T. Wilson

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
- Woodrow T. Wilson

Ellen DeGeneres

(about local news) They do these teases to get you to watch late on. They're so incredibly cruel: "It could be the most deadly thing in the world and you may be having it for dinner. We'll tell you what it is tonight at 11:00."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

G.K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- G.K. Chesterton

William Shakespeare

“What's done is done.”
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1564-1616)

Charles Seymour

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
- Charles Seymour

Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools.
- Thomas Hobbes

Johnny Carson

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.
- Johnny Carson

Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau