Bette Midler

Well, enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think about me?
- Bette Midler

Goethe

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
- Goethe

Leslie Miklosy

Follow the siren's call, and you'll probably end up in the hospital.
- Leslie Miklosy

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Pietro Aretino

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
- Pietro Aretino

Eric S. Raymond

Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.
- Eric S. Raymond

Albert Einstein

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
- Albert Einstein

Michael Jackson

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.
- Michael Jackson

Chinese Proverb

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
- Chinese Proverb

George Bernard Shaw

"You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
- George Bernard Shaw

Jane Austen

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1775 - 1817)

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Alexis Carrel

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
- Alexis Carrel

Douglas Adams

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams

John D. Rockefeller

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
- John D. Rockefeller

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Napoleon

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
- Napoleon

Simone Weil

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
- Simone Weil

Jean Giraudoux

"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
- Jean Giraudoux

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be small.
- Benjamin Disraeli

C. S. Lewis

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
- C. S. Lewis

Chris Rock

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.
- Chris Rock

Abraham Maslow

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

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

Ernestine Ulmer

“Eat dessert first. Life is uncertain.”
- Ernestine Ulmer

John Milton

None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
- John Milton

Muhammad Ali

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
- Muhammad Ali

Amy E. Dean

"Tonight I’ll think about what I can mean to my life, not what my life can mean to me."
- Amy E. Dean

Abraham Lincoln

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

Mark Twain

...there is not another temper as bad as mine except God Almighty's.
- Mark Twain