The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
—Publilius Syrus (Syrian-born Latin Writer)
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)
Like what you do, if you don’t like it, do something else.
—Paul Harvey (American Broadcaster)
Reason conquers all.
—Marcus Manilius (Roman Poet)
There’s no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there’s no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you’d never make.
—Edgar Guest (English-born American Poet)
Creativity is almost always: unlearned. Ask young children, “Are you creative?” They’ll all raise a hand. By age 16, none of them will because they’ve had their creativity gently squeezed out of them by those who think conventionally.
—John Cleese (British Comic Actor, Writer)
It’s not the having, it’s the getting.
—Elizabeth Taylor (American Actress)
Differences of opinion give me but little concern; but it is a real pleasure to be brought into communication with any one who is in earnest, and who really look to God’s will as his standard of right and wrong, and judges of actions according to their greater or less conformity.
—Thomas Arnold (English Educationalist)
Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do.
—Margaret Thatcher (British Head of State)
Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
—Hugh Prather (American Christian Author)
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
—Walter Lippmann (American Journalist)
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
—Kenny Rogers (American Singer-Songwriter)
Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something.
—Paul Valery (French Critic, Poet)
A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fullness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened religion.
—William Ellery Channing (American Theologian, Poet)
Cease not to be the sculptor of thine own image.
—Plotinus (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mystic)