One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
—Albert Schweitzer (French Theologian)
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)
Get mad, then get over it.
—Colin Powell (American Military Leader)
The simplest things are often the truest.
—Richard Bach (American Novelist)
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American Poet)
Do the truth ye know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
—George MacDonald (Scottish Christian Author)
Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.
—James Cash Penney (American Entrepreneur)
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
—Harold Kushner (American Jewish Religious Leader)
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
—Socrates (Anceient Greek Philosopher)
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
—Honore de Balzac (French Novelist)
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
—Anais Nin (French-American Essayist)