"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean." - Alan Watts

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln

"Once you label me you negate me." - Søren Kierkegaard

"A thing well said will be wit in all languages." - John Dryden

"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey

"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." - The Buddha

"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything." - Aesop

"Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course." - The Buddha

"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with." - Marcus Aurelius

"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." - Leo Buscaglia

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." - Jean Cocteau

"Well begun is half done." - Aristotle

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." - Virginia Woolf

"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chödrön

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - The Buddha

"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life." - William Blake

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." - John Burroughs

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human." - George Santayana

"'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill." - The Buddha

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." - Benjamin Spock

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Error is discipline through which we advance." - William Ellery Channing

"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works." - John Cleese

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." - Bo Jackson

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Alexander Chalmers

"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said." - Mark Twain

"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." - Jonathan Swift

"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else." - Dalai Lama

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides

"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe

"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." - W. Clement Stone

"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life." - James F. Byrnes

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose." - William Shakespeare

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." - Abraham Lincoln

"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer

"If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future." - Caterina

"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom." - Aeschylus

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength." - Phil Jackson

"All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts." - William Shakespeare

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Laozi

"Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone." - John Burroughs

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci