Buddha

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
- Buddha

Ben Stein

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want."
- Ben Stein

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Socrates

He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he doesn't have.
- Socrates

Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
- Helen Rowland

John Steinbeck

“People don’t take trips – trips take people.”
- John Steinbeck

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Primo Levi

"Sooner or later in life everyone realizes that perfect happiness is unattainable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both of those extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite. The ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it. The certainty of death opposes it: for it places a limit on every joy, but also on every grief."
- Primo Levi

Isaac Asimov

“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ”
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

Richard Holloway

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
- Richard Holloway

Hugh B. Brown

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.
- Hugh B. Brown

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not unknown to me how many men have had, and still have, the opinion that the affairs of the world are in such wise governed by fortune and by God that men with their wisdom cannot direct them and that no one can even help them...
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Peter Wastholm

Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
- Peter Wastholm

Margaret Halsey

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
- Margaret Halsey

Robert H. Schuller

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
- Robert H. Schuller

Jane Caminos

"A waist is a terrible thing to mind."
- Jane Caminos

Antonio Porchia

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
- Antonio Porchia

Frank Zappa

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."
- Frank Zappa

Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford

Arnold Bennett

"You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your mortal soul. Its right use, its most effective use, is a matter of highest urgency."
- Arnold Bennett

Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

Robertson Davies

“To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.”
- Robertson Davies (1913 - 1995)

Anonymous

It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.
- Anonymous

Linus Torvalds

The Linux philosophy is Laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong One. Do it yourself. Yes, thats it.
- Linus Torvalds

Bruce Jenner

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win, if you don't, you won't.
- Bruce Jenner

Spanish Proverb

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
- Spanish Proverb

Herman Melville

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
- Herman Melville

Isabel Norton

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

Florida Scott-Maxwell

"I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing age that it is a time of discovery. If they say 'Of what?' I can only answer 'We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery.'”
- Florida Scott-Maxwell

Mark Twain

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
- Mark Twain