Betty White

 I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it. 

- Betty White

Isaac Newton

 Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

- Isaac Newton

Michelangelo

 Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. 

- Michelangelo

Stan Laurel

 I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. 

- Stan Laurel

Saint Patrick

 I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches. 

- Saint Patrick

Benjamin Franklin

 There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. 

- Benjamin Franklin

Reinhold Niebuhr

 God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. 

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Jim Morrison

 A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. 

- Jim Morrison

Lenny Bruce

 The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. 

- Lenny Bruce

Marcel Proust

 Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. 

- Marcel Proust

Ernest Hemingway

 When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you. 

- Ernest Hemingway

P. T. Barnum

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching. 

- P. T. Barnum

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abraham Lincoln

 Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. 

- Abraham Lincoln

Helen Hayes

 I cry out for order and find it only in art. 

- Helen Hayes

Henny Youngman

 A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. 

- Henny Youngman

Robert E. Lee

 The education of a man is never completed until he dies. 

- Robert E. Lee

Edgar Allan Poe

 I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. 

- Edgar Allan Poe

Will Rogers

 The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you. 

Will Rogers

Andy Rooney

 Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. 

- Andy Rooney

H. L. Mencken

 Life is a dead-end street. 

- H. L. Mencken

Jonas Salk

 Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. 

- Jonas Salk

Joyce Meyer

 Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things. 

- Joyce Meyer

Arthur Schopenhauer

 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. 

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Anne Frank

 When I write, I can shake off all my cares. 

- Anne Frank

Groucho Marx

 Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. 

- Groucho Marx

John F. Kennedy

 I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. 

- John F. Kennedy

Bertrand Russell

 The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. 

- Bertrand Russell

Albert Schweitzer

 An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. 

- Albert Schweitzer

Alexis de Tocqueville

 There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. 

- Alexis de Tocqueville

Mark Twain

 Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. 

- Mark Twain