Jim Rohn

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become."
- Jim Rohn

Richard Wagner

Joy is not in things, it is in us.
- Richard Wagner

Ambrose Bierce

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce

Ellen Degeneres

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
- Ellen Degeneres

H. L. Mencken

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
- H. L. Mencken

Kin Hubbard

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
- Kin Hubbard

Russell P. Askue

"If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men."
- Russell P. Askue

Charles Caleb Colton

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."
- Charles Caleb Colton

Mignon McLaughlin

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
- Mignon McLaughlin

John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
- John Steinbeck

Thomas Hobbes

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For...no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death
- Thomas Hobbes, 17th Century English Political Philosopher

Sophocles

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
- Sophocles

Plato

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
- Plato

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most."
- Joseph Wood Krutch

William James

"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers."
- William James

Marty Indik

"Confusion is always the most honest response."
- Marty Indik

Confucius

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
- Confucius

Ellen Goodman

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.
- Ellen Goodman

J.R.R. Tolkien

And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death.
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord Byron

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
- Lord Byron

Steven Weinberg

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
- Steven Weinberg

Ching Ning Chu

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
- Ching Ning Chu

Don Herrold

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
- Don Herrold

Judith Martin

When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.
- Judith Martin

Rodney Dangerfield

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met!
- Rodney Dangerfield

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for arts sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Allan Watts

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
- Allan Watts

Edmund Burke

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
- Edmund Burke

George Bernard Shaw

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
- George Bernard Shaw

Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill

Mark Twain

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
- Mark Twain