Let no man imagine that he has no influence. - Henry George

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. - African Proverb

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levensonv

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. - Ernest Hemingway

One of the best ways to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good. - Unknown

Only God is in a position to look down on anyone. - Sarah Brown

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. - William A. Orton

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. - John Lubbock

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. - Leo Buscaglia

No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one. - Elbert Hubbard

The ordinary man is involved in action. The hero acts. An immense difference. - Henry Miller

The years teach much which the days never know. - Emerson

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. - Herbert Hoover

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way. - Donald O. Hebb

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. *-George Washington

I don't want to be quoted, and don't quote me that I don't want to be quoted. - Winston Burdett

Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration. - Kin Hubbard

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. - Gustave Flaubert

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other. - Jessamyn West

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. - Jacqueline Kennedy

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. - Richard J. Needham

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarms who make history. - Adolf Hitler

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. - Robert Orben

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. - Dr. Karl Menninger

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. - Myrtle Auvil

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. - Ann Landers

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - Unknown

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. - Stewart B. Johnson

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African Proverb

One of the reasons mtaure people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. - John W. Gardner

All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference. - Voltaire

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. - John Steinbeck

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert F. Kennedy

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. - Benjamin Whichcote.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling. - Claude Pepper

Words can be beautiful. So can dreams. So can hopes. - F. Clifton White

God likes help when helping people. - Irish Proverb

The chicken probably came before the egg because it is hard to imagine God wanting to sit on an egg. - Unknown

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God - Chales Horton Cooley

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. - Robert H. Shaffer

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. - John F. Kennedy

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. - Thomas Jefferson

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. - David Grayson

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Stephen Leacock