Ernest Hemingway

 I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? 

- Ernest Hemingway

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 The highest state is laughter. 

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Walt Whitman

 Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. 

- Walt Whitman

Imran Amed

 Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business. 

- Imran Amed

Henri Matisse

 There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. 

- Henri Matisse

Paul Gauguin

 Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! 

- Paul Gauguin

Les Brown

 Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. 

- Les Brown

Francis of Assisi

 Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. 

- Francis of Assisi

Paul Harvey

 In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. 

- Paul Harvey

Ambrose Bierce

 Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  

- Ambrose Bierce

Erma Bombeck

 Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. 

- Erma Bombeck

Tulsi Gabbard

Each of us wants to be free. But if we want to be free, we also need to appreciate that others also desire the same thing. 

- Tulsi Gabbard

Ovid

 Beauty is a fragile gift. 

- Ovid

Henry Miller

 The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. 

- Henry Miller

Albert Einstein

 Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 

- Albert Einstein

Leo Tolstoy

 Music is the shorthand of emotion. 

- Leo Tolstoy

Billy Connolly

 Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. 

- Billy Connolly

Chester W. Nimitz

 God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. 

- Chester W. Nimitz

Zsa Zsa Gabor

 I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names. 

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Horace

A picture is a poem without words. 

- Horace

Ramana Maharshi

 Silence is also conversation. 

- Ramana Maharshi

Elizabeth Bowen

 Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. 

- Elizabeth Bowen

James Joyce

 The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. 

- James Joyce

Charles Simmons

 Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. 

- Charles Simmons

Sylvester Stallone

 There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. 

- Sylvester Stallone

Mignon McLaughlin

 It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. 

- Mignon McLaughlin

James M. Barrie

 Life is a long lesson in humility. 

- James M. Barrie

Abraham Lincoln

 The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. 

- Abraham Lincoln

Fulton J. Sheen

 Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. 

- Fulton J. Sheen

Oscar Levant

 The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. 

- Oscar Levant

Mark Twain

 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. 

- Mark Twain