I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
—George Burns (American Comedian)
There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads on the heels of great and unexpected riches.
—Jean de La Bruyere (French Author)
There are three marks of a superior man; being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)
You are strong because you are imperfect. You are wise because you have doubts.
—Clementine Churchill (British Humanitarian)
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, which they have imbibed, they can scarcely trace how, rather than to root them out. The mind must be strong that resolutely forms its own principles; for a kind of intellectual cowardice prevails which makes many men shrink from the task, or only do it by halves.
—Mary Wollstonecraft (English Writer, Feminist)
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)
Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of ‘holistier than thou’ self-righteousness has become fashionable.
—Richard Dawkins (British Ethologist, Atheist)
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage,—the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
—Helen Keller (American Author)
Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
—Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Indian Philosopher, Political Leader)
Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
—Anthony de Mello (Indian-born American Theologian)
It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.
—B. Earl Puckett (American Businessperson)