Michael Caine

 I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. 

- Michael Caine

Ambrose Bierce

 Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. 

- Ambrose Bierce

John Kennedy

 Let me state the obvious. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh. 

- John Kennedy

Mark Twain

 All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. 

- Mark Twain

Galileo Galilei

 We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. 

- Galileo Galilei

Dolly Parton

 We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

- Dolly Parton

Thomas Jefferson

 When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. 

- Thomas Jefferson

Saint Augustine

 This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. 

- Saint Augustine

Clarence Darrow

 The trouble with law is lawyers. 

- Clarence Darrow

George Carlin

 If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. 

- George Carlin

Dwight D. Eisenhower

 Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Julie Andrews

 Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

- Julie Andrews

Denis Waitley

 Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

- Denis Waitley

Ayn Rand

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

- Ayn Rand

Sophocles

 Always desire to learn something useful.

- Sophocles