Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today’s duties and tomorrow’s anxieties piled on the top of them.
—Theodore L. Cuyler (American Presbyterian Clergyman)
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and a houseful of books isn’t poor.
—Sam Levenson (American Humorist)
It’s a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
—Arnold Palmer (American Sportsperson)
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
—Albert Edward Wiggam (American Psychologist, Writer)
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
—Daniel J. Boorstin (American Historian)
I do not bemoan misfortune. To me there is no misfortune. I welcome whatever comes; I go out gladly to meet it.
—Muriel Strode (American Author, Businesswoman)
Conduct is more convincing than language.
—John Woolman (American Quaker Reformer)
There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
—Susan Griffin (American Feminist Author)
Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly.
—Elizabeth Gilbert (American Novelist)
All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.
—Nicholas of Cusa (German Cardinal, Philosopher)
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
—Joe Paterno (American Sportsperson)
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
—Russell Lynes (American Art Historian)
When you stop having dreams and ideals—well, you might as well stop altogether.
—Marian Anderson (American Singer)
A liberal is man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.
—Frank Lane (American Sportsperson)