Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
—Charles Dickens (English Novelist)
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
—Alvin Toffler (American Writer, Futurist)
A person can achieve everything by being simple and humble.
—The Vedas (Sacred Books of Hinduism)
We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
—Frank Winfield Woolworth (American Retail Pioneer)
It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.
—James Freeman Clarke (American Clergyman)
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to ‘Until debt do us part’.
—Sam Ewing (American Writer)
The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do—by yourself, upon your own initiative.
—Harry Browne (American Author, Economist)
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
—Philip Caldwell (American Businessperson)
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
—Johann Georg Hamann (German Philosopher)
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
—Bertolt Brecht (German Poet)
If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.
—Thomas Brackett Reed (American Politician)