H. L. Hunt

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."
- H. L. Hunt

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
- Matthew Arnold

Earl Nightingale

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."
- Earl Nightingale

George Eliot

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Galileo

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo

H.L. Mencken

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
- H.L. Mencken

John Mason

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
- John Mason

W. C. Fields

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)

Chinese Proverb

"If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions."
- Chinese Proverb

Jose Ortega Gasset

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
- Jose Ortega Gasset

Dr. Benjamin Spock

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Dr. Benjamin Spock

John Updike

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike

Charlton Heston

"Here's my credo. There are no good guns, There are no bad guns. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone, except bad people."
- Charlton Heston

Ann Landers

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Ann Landers

Ronald Reagan

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
- Ronald Reagan

Montaigne

"The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible."
- Montaigne

William Barclay

"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
- William Barclay

Adlai Stevenson

A hungry man is not a free man.
- Adlai Stevenson

Harrison Ford

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
- Harrison Ford

P. J. O'Rourke

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Malcolm S. Forbes

"Presence is more than just being there."
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Thomas Jefferson

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
- Thomas Jefferson

Jack Handey

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
- Jack Handey

Woody Allen

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
- Woody Allen

Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
- Robert Frost

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)