Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 Correction does much, but encouragement does more. 

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Helen Keller

 Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. 

- Helen Keller

Sigmund Freud

 Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. 

- Sigmund Freud

Michelangelo

 If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. 

- Michelangelo

Steven Wright

 I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. 

- Steven Wright

Alexander the Great

 I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. 

- Alexander the Great

Morgan Freeman

 I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors. 

- Morgan Freeman

Edgar Allan Poe

 Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. 

- Edgar Allan Poe

Lawrence Welk

 There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them. 

- Lawrence Welk

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

J. R. R. Tolkien

 If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. 

- J. R. R. Tolkien

Joyce Meyer

 Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day. 

- Joyce Meyer

Friedrich Nietzsche

 The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. 

- Friedrich Nietzsche

H. L. Mencken

 The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. 

- H. L. Mencken

Abraham Lincoln

 The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. 

- Abraham Lincoln

Plato

 Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. 

- Plato

Peter Drucker

 We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. 

- Peter Drucker

Angelina Jolie

 I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on. 

- Angelina Jolie

H. G. Wells

 Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. 

- H. G. Wells

Ayn Rand

 Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. 

- Ayn Rand

Henry Rollins

 Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. 

- Henry Rollins

Alexander Graham Bell

 What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. 

- Alexander Graham Bell

Henny Youngman

 What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. 

- Henny Youngman

Walter Matthau

 My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. 

- Walter Matthau

George Orwell

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. 

- George Orwell 

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

 A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. 

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Aldous Huxley

 Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. 

- Aldous Huxley

Mark Twain

 I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. 

- Mark Twain