Adam Smith

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
- Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations)

Douglas Adams

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
- Douglas Adams

Liza Minnelli

Reality is something you rise above.
- Liza Minnelli

Doctor Who

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
- Doctor Who

Clare Booth Luce

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
- Clare Booth Luce

P. G. Wodehouse

"Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious."
- P. G. Wodehouse

Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln

C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- C. S. Lewis

Bob Richards

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
- Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter

Will Rogers

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers

Horace

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
- Horace

Bertrand Russell

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Bob Proctor

Refuse to let your present results influence your thinking. Keep reminding yourself that you have a power within you that is superior to any condition or circumstance you may encounter enroute to your goal.
- Bob Proctor

Anatole France

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
- Anatole France

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein

Lao Tzu

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
- Lao Tzu

Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Jim Bishop

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
- Jim Bishop

H. L. Mencken

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
- H. L. Mencken

Buddha

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
- Buddha

Socrates

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates

Aristotle

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
- Aristotle

William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
- William Shakespeare

Tao Te Ching

If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.
- Tao Te Ching

Henry David Thoreau

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Plato

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato

Confucius

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
- Confucius

George W Bush

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.
- George W Bush

Mark Twain

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain