Christopher Columbus

 Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier. 

- Christopher Columbus

Charles Bukowski

 An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. 

- Charles Bukowski

Joseph Campbell

 Love is a friendship set to music. 

- Joseph Campbell

Joyce Meyer

 You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. 

- Joyce Meyer

John Wayne

 When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over. 

- John Wayne

Joe Biden

 Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. 

- Joe Biden

Immanuel Kant

 All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. 

- Immanuel Kant

Lenny Bruce

 In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. 

- Lenny Bruce

Heraclitus

 No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. 

- Heraclitus

Pablo Picasso

 Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. 

- Pablo Picasso

Buddy Hackett

 As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. 

- Buddy Hackett

Friedrich Nietzsche

 It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. 

- Friedrich Nietzsche

H. L. Mencken

 On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. 

- H. L. Mencken

Abraham Lincoln

 Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. 

- Abraham Lincoln

Donald Trump

 What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. 

- Donald Trump

Plato

 Necessity... the mother of invention. 

- Plato

Angelina Jolie

 Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of. 

- Angelina Jolie

H. G. Wells

 The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. 

- H. G. Wells

Ayn Rand

 A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. 

- Ayn Rand

Peter Drucker

 Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. 

- Peter Drucker

Henry Rollins

 I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. 

- Henry Rollins

Alexander Graham Bell

 A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. 

- Alexander Graham Bell

Henny Youngman

 I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. 

- Henny Youngman

John W. Gardner

 The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. 

- John W. Gardner

Harvey Mackay

 When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. 

- Harvey Mackay

Samuel Goldwyn

 A hospital is no place to be sick. 

- Samuel Goldwyn

Richard Bach

 The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. 

- Richard Bach

Aldous Huxley

 Maybe this world is another planet's hell. 

- Aldous Huxley

C. S. Lewis

 We are what we believe we are. 

- C. S. Lewis

George Orwell

 Liberal: a power worshipper without power. 

- George Orwell

Mark Twain

 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. 

- Mark Twain