Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)
One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
—Malcolm Forbes (American Publisher)
A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.
—Andrew Carnegie (Scottish-American Industrialist, Philanthropist)
Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
—Will Rogers (American Actor)
Observe how soon, and to what a degree, a mother’s influence begins to operate! Her first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win its life at the peril of her own! How different must an affection thus founded be from all others!
—Lydia H. Sigourney
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)
The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.
—Epicurus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
—William Feather (American Publisher)