John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy

Boris Yeltsin

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
- Boris Yeltsin

Audrey Hepburn

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
- Audrey Hepburn

Zoe Atkins

"Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing."
- Zoe Atkins

Oscar Wilde

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
- Oscar Wilde

George Bernard Shaw

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw

Robert Cecil Day-Lewis

How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
- Robert Cecil Day-Lewis

Laurence J. Peter

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
- Laurence J. Peter

William Shakespeare

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
- William Shakespeare

Stephen Hawking

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
- Stephen Hawking

Ken Keyes Jr.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.
- Ken Keyes Jr.

Abraham Lincoln

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Saint Augustine

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine

Vanna Bonta

Love is a quality, not a quantity.
- Vanna Bonta

Charles Dickens

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
- Charles Dickens

Patrick Moore

At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.
- Patrick Moore

John Wayne

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne

Samuel Hendel

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.
- Samuel Hendel

Tao Te Ching

When you look for it, there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. When you use it, it is inexhaustible.
- Tao Te Ching

Buddha

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
- Buddha

Ronald Reagan

I think the best possible social program is a job.
- Ronald Reagan

Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
- Ambrose Bierce

Montesquieu

"If one only wished to be happy, this could easily be accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."
- Montesquieu

Dave Barry

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
- Dave Barry

Irving Babbitt

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
- Irving Babbitt

Martin Luther King Jr.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Abraham Maslow

We do what we are and we are what we do.
- Abraham Maslow

Grace Allen

As I look at all these trusting and loving faces, tears come into my eyes... and if you must know why, it's because my girdle is killing me.
- Grace Allen

Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei

Aristotle

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle

Mark Twain

All good things arrive unto them that wait--and don't die in the meantime.
- Mark Twain