A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)
Unclaimed promises are like uncashed cheques; they will keep us from bankruptcy, but not from want.
—Frances Ridley Havergal (English Anglican Poet)
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
—Frances Ridley Havergal (English Anglican Poet)
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)