Wayne Dyer

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
- Wayne Dyer

Vernon Sanders Law

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
- Vernon Sanders Law 

Duguet

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. 
- Duguet

Sally Kempton

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
- Sally Kempton

Gotama Buddha

"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned."
- Gotama Buddha

Meredith Willson

"Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today."
- Meredith Willson

Vaclav Havel

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
-Vaclav Havel

Victor Hugo

"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."
- Victor Hugo

James Thurber

"It's better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers."
- James Thurber

Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

John Farrar

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
- John Farrar (1945-) Australian Composer

Cicero

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Philippicoe (XII, 2)~

Luciano Pavarotti

"People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference." 
- Luciano Pavarotti 1935-2007 Opera Singer

Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. 
- Dale Carnegie

Alvin Toffler

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
- Alvin Toffler

E. James Rohn

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
- E. James Rohn

Bruce Lee

"Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth."
- Bruce Lee - 1940-1973, Martial Artist, Actor and Author

Cullen Hightower

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
- Cullen Hightower

Joseph Addison

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
- Joseph Addison

Stephen Crane

Every sin is the result of collaboration.
- Stephen Crane

Ambrose Bierce

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
- Ambrose Bierce

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. 
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000) Canadian Prime Minister

Everett Dirksen

"Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries."
- Everett Dirksen 

John Adams

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)

Jack Handey

"Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings."  
- Jack Handey

Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills - American Opera Singer

Don Marquis

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
- Don Marquis

Bill Cosby

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
- Bill Cosby

Mark Twain

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. 
- Mark Twain