The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
—Robert Brault
Never stop questioning.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Philosopher)
Isn’t it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
—Malcolm Forbes (American Publisher)
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached at an angle.
—Andre Gide (French Novelist)
Life begins on the other side of despair.
—Jean-Paul Sartre (French Philosopher)
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (American Author, Aviator)
No one reaches a high position without daring.
—Publilius Syrus (Syrian-born Latin Writer)
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
—Marquis de Sade (French Political leader)
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)