Wayne Gretzky

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
- Wayne Gretzky

Martin Buber

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
- Martin Buber

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Al Capp

Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
- Al Capp

Erica Jong

You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
- Erica Jong

Philip James Bailey

Kindness is wisdom.
- Philip James Bailey

Brian Tracy

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
- Brian Tracy

William Shakespeare

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe.”
- William Shakespeare, King Richard III (1564-1616)

Robert Jordan

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
- Robert Jordan

Eugene Molloy

One thing about those convenience stores... they're some convenient.
- Eugene Molloy

Mel Brooks

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
- Mel Brooks

Alan Reed

An inferiority complex would be a blessing, if only the right people had it.
- Alan Reed

Homer Simpson

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
- Homer Simpson

Miriam Beard

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
- Miriam Beard

Yoda

“Not if anything to say about it I have.”
- Yoda

Danny Thomas

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
- Danny Thomas

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal

Samuel Johnson

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson

Henny Youngman

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
- Henny Youngman

Epictetus

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- Epictetus

James Baldwin

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world, it is better than bombing one out of it.
- James Baldwin

Will Smith

How'd I feel if somebody bust my ass while I'm on the treadmill?
- Will Smith

Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Francis Bacon

Louis C. K.

"Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don't."
- Louis C. K.

Robert Frost

"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost

Eric Hoffer

"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
- Eric Hoffer

Walter Bagehot

"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
- Walter Bagehot

Thomas Edison

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off.
- Thomas Edison

Tao Te Ching

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick, then you can move toward health.
- Tao Te Ching

Mark Twain

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain