Franz Kafka

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
- Franz Kafka

Catherine Pulsifer

We enjoy our work so much we get up when the sun comes up. The stress in our life is non-existent.
- Catherine Pulsifer

Charles H. Duell

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Ouiser Boudreaux

I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood 40 years!
- Ouiser Boudreaux (Steel Magnolias)

Gloria Gaither

“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”
- Gloria Gaither

Thomas Penfield Jackson

Some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest.
- Thomas Penfield Jackson

George Bernard Shaw

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
- George Bernard Shaw

Terry Pratchett

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
- Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (1948 -)

Maureen Killoran

Stress is not what happens to us. It's our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose.
- Maureen Killoran

John Buchan

"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
- John Buchan

Baruch Spinoza

“Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.”
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)

Hugh B. Brown

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

C. S. Lewis

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
- C. S. Lewis

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Tennessee Williams

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.”
- Tennessee Williams

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.
- Ernie Kovacs

Dale Carnegie

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
- Dale Carnegie

Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
- Santayana, Essays

Frank Dane

"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
- Frank Dane

Kahlil Gibran

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
- Kahlil Gibran

Charles Churchill

"A joke's a very serious thing."
- Charles Churchill

William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
- William Shakespeare

John Keats

Love is my religion, I could die for it.
- John Keats

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Marcus T. Cicero

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
- Marcus T. Cicero

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Helen Keller

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
- Helen Keller

Mark Twain

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
- Mark Twain