Bhumibol Adulyadej

 A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. 

- Bhumibol Adulyadej

Tony Dorsett

 To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. 

- Tony Dorsett

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

John D. Rockefeller

 do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. 

- John D. Rockefeller

Rita Moreno

 Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that. 

- Rita Moreno

James Madison

 If men were angels, no government would be necessary. 

- James Madison

Woody Allen

 You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. 

- Woody Allen

Jesus Christ

 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. 

- Jesus Christ

Horace Walpole

 Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. 

- Horace Walpole

Pete Rose

 I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits. 

- Pete Rose

Marla Gibbs

 You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can. 

- Marla Gibbs

T. S. Eliot

 There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. 

- T. S. Eliot

Gustav Mahler

 It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew. 

- Gustav Mahler

Leo Tolstoy

 The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. 

- Leo Tolstoy

Victor Hugo

 Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. 

- Victor Hugo

Jimmy Carter

 You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. 

- Jimmy Carter

Hunter S. Thompson

 In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. 

- Hunter S. Thompson

Mahatma Gandhi

 You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. 

- Mahatma Gandhi

John Wooden

 If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes. 

- John Wooden

Arthur Schopenhauer

 The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. 

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Saint Augustine

 The greatest evil is physical pain. 

- Saint Augustine

Michael J. Fox

 Family is not an important thing. It's everything. 

- Michael J. Fox

Miguel de Cervantes

 In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. 

- Miguel de Cervantes

Hannah Arendt

 Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. 

- Hannah Arendt

Aldous Huxley

 It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' 

- Aldous Huxley

C. S. Lewis

 Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. 

- C. S. Lewis

George Orwell

 All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. 

- George Orwell

Florence Griffith Joyner

 A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up. 

- Florence Griffith Joyner

Franz Kafka

 So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. 

- Franz Kafka

Helen Keller

 So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. 

- Helen Keller

David Gerrold

 Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. 

- David Gerrold

Mark Twain

 Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. 

- Mark Twain