Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)
The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
—Bruce Lee (Hong-Kong-born American Sportsperson)
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (Roman Poet)
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
—Woodrow Wilson (American Head of State)
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.
—Katherine Anne Porter (American Journalist)
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
—Epictetus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
—Woodrow Wilson (American Head of State)
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)
Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)