• "If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • "One machine can do the work of fifty men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

  • "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus

  • "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances." -- Martha Washington

  • "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." -- Buddha

  • "The world is not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your children." -- Kenyan proverb

  • "What happens to you in life is not as important as your attitude toward it."

  • "The secret of success is to have more good days than bad days."

  • "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." -- Peter Marshall.

  • "Forget committees. New, noble, world-changing ideas always come from one person working alone." -- H. Jackson Brown, Life's Little Instruction Book

  • "Well done is better than well said." -- Ben Franklin

  • "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill

  • "St. Augustine had good insight on the division of labor between God and his children when he wrote that we should work as if everything depended on our efforts and pray as if everything depended on the Almighty."

  • "Life is too short for long division."

  • "Life is a ladder: Every step we take is either up or down." -- Brewster

  • "Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics."

  • "We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors." -- Bruce Joyce

  • "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." -- Albert Einstein

  • "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." -- Albert Einstein

  • "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." -- Horace Mann

  • "You don't have to teach people to be human. You need to teach them how to stop being inhuman." -- Eldridge Cleaver

  • "By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year." -- Bill Clinton

  • "My philosophy of learning, like my blood type, is "be positive." Keeping student attitudes positive is vital to their success in learning." -- David Pleacher

  • "Character is what you are when no one is watching."

  • "Morality, like art, consists in drawing a line somewhere."

  • "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it." -- Charles Swindoll

  • "If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." -- Frank A. Clark

  • "Newton's First Law: Somedays it's better to stay in bed."

  • "He who laughs, lasts." -- Mary Pettibone Poole

  • "Positive attitudes bring positive results. Negative attitudes bring negative results."

  • "What is now proved was once only imagined."

  • "Men who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

  • "Some people study all their life, and at their death have learned everything but to think." -- Demergue

  • "The past must be a springboard, not a sofa." -- Harold MacMillan

  • "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." -- Linus Pauling

  • "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game." -- Goethe

  • "Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -- Emerson

  • "Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "Sufficient unto the day is the rigor thereof." -- Eliakim H. Moore

  • "Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward."

  • "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." -- Thomas Alva Edison

  • "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." -- Henry Ford

  • "You live your life between your ears." -- Bebe Moore Campbell

  • "Major paradoxes provide food for logical thought for decades and sometimes centuries." -- Nicholas Bourbaki

  • "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes." -- John Dewey

  • "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ. They showed me a picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me, 'which one is different and does not belong?' They taught me different was wrong." -- Ani DiFranco

  • "you got to look outside-- your eyes-- you got to think outside-- your brain-- you got to walk outside-- your life-- to where the neighborhoods change." -- Ani DiFranco

  • "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." -- Mike Ditka

  • "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • "There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" -- Thomas Edison

  • "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." -- Albert Einstein

  • "I have no particular talent. I am only inquisitive." -- Albert Einstein

  • "Three passions ... have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." -- Bertrand Russell

  • "You get what you settle for." -- Louise Sawyer, from the movie Thelma and Louise

  • "If you hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." -- George Bernard Shaw

  • "I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting." -- Edith Wharton

  • "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." -- Sydney J. Harris

  • "God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen." -- Stephen Hawking

  • "Logic doesn't apply to the real world." -- Marvin Lee Minsky

  • "If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires." -- Seneca

  • "One should always generalize." -- Carl Jacobi

  • "We think in generalities, but we live in details." -- Alfred North Whitehead

  • "Man can not discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." -- Andre Gide

  • "It's not the situation ... it's your reaction to the situation." -- Robert Conklin

  • "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

  • "Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time." -- George Bernard Shaw

  • "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." -- Bernard Baruch

  • "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." -- Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

  • "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true ... I no longer know how to use my telephone." -- Bjarne Stroustrup

  • "If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane." -- Jimmy Buffett

  • "We use only 10% of our brains… Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!" -- Ellen DeGeneres

  • "A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need our advice." -- Bill Cosby

  • "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." -- W.C. Fields

  • "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." -- Groucho Marx

  • "Do the math: Count your blessings."

  • "The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness." -- Montaigne

  • "Charlie Chaplin once allegedly said to Albert Einstein: "The people applaud me because everyone understands me, and they applaud you because no one understands you."

  • "Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."

  • "Happiness is a state of the heart. It is not a function of circumstances."

  • "Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction."

  • "The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • "Without the assistance of the Divine Being... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail." -- Abraham Lincoln

  • "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other." -- Brian Tracy

  • "Laughter is a shock absorber that eases the blows of life."

  • "A goal without a plan is just a wish." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • "Perhaps the greatest shortcoming as a society is in the low expectations we set for both ourselves and our children." -- Jim Rubillo

  • "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night; God said, 'Let Newton be' and all was light." -- Alexander Pope

  • "If God had wanted permissiveness, he would have given The Ten Suggestions."

  • "If you ever said what you ere thinking, you'd be speechless."

  • "A pat on the back will help build character if it is given often enough, hard enough, and low enough."

  • "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." -- Don Marquis

  • "Everyone is of some use, even if nothing more than to serve as a horrible example."

  • "Taxes are just like playing golf --
    you drive your heart for the green, and then you end up in the hole."

  • "You will never get ahead trying to get even."

  • "We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen more and talk less."

  • "Some people know a lot more when you try to tell them something than when you ask them something."

  • "A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature." -- John Henry Newman

  • "There is no failure except in giving up."

  • "He who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." -- Camillo di Cavour

  • "If it moves and shouldn't, use duct tape.
    If it doesn't move and should, use WD-40."

  • "Life is a ladder: every step we take is either up or down."

  • "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else." -- Will Rogers

  • "Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It keeps you busy, but doesn't get you anywhere." -- Will Rogers

  • "I always try to follow through. Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out." -- Babe Ruth

  • "Show me a man who smiles when everything goes wrong and I'll show you an idiot."

  • "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."

  • "Two things are bad for the heart -- running upstairs and running down people."

  • "The big potaoes are on top of the heap because a lot of little potatoes are in there holding them up."

  • "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa have been painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report?
    Creative ideas do not spring from groups; they spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam." -- Whitney Grisold

  • "If you were someone else -- would you have YOU for a friend?"

  • "Nothing was ever promised me that was not given: nothing ever threatened me that was not inflicted; and nothing ever told me that was not true." -- John Ruskin

  • "I hope I die before I lose my sense of humor and before my family loses their sense of humor."

  • "To truly experience JOY and not just happiness, you must put Jesus first, then Others, then Yourself. -- Rich Reifsnyder

  • "Beer is the proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Ben Franklin

  • "Be a doer, not a don'ter.   Dwell on the positive."

  • "The seven decades of life:
    spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, and wills."

  • "The three stages of life are: Youth, Middle Age, and 'You're lookin' good.' -- from Cleon Kimberling"

  • "The world seldom notices who the teachers are,
    but civilization depends on what they do and what they say."

  • "Look at the Golden Rule - It's the first thing I was taught: 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.'   If we could all just do that, what a great place this world would be.   One crummy little rule, and none of us can follow it." -- John Mellencamp

  • "If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator.
    If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist.
    If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist.
    If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer.
    But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Saviour."
    - Roy Lessin in Meet Me in the Meadow

  • "If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist.
    If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist.
    If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician.
    If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor.
    But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior."
    -- D.A. Carlson in Call to Spiritual Reformation