I don’t know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
—Zona Gale (American Novelist, Playwright)
Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn’t want it, one doesn’t get it.
—C. P. Snow (British Novelist, Scientist)
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
—Ben Hogan (American Golfer)
Never buy at the bottom, and always sell too soon.
—Jesse Lauriston Livermore (American Investor)
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
—Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (Scottish Judge, Critic)
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
—Jonas Salk (American Virologist)
High expectations are the key to everything.
—Sam Walton (American Entrepreneur)
Do or do not; there is no try.
—George Lucas (American Filmmaker)
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown—but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. The catch is that they can’t seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present … I mean today, this minute.
—Maxwell Maltz (American Surgeon)
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you’re unhappy where you are, MOVE.
—Timothy Leary (American Psychologist)
The time is almost upon us when a pack-train must wind its way up a graveled highway and turn its bellmare in the pasture of a summer hotel. When that day comes, the pack-train will be dead, the diamond hitch will be merely rope, and Kit Carson and Jim Bridger will be names in a history lesson. And thenceforth the march of empire will be a matter of gasoline and four wheel brakes.
—Aldo Leopold (American Conservationist)
Boredom is rage spread thin.
—Paul Tillich (German-American Theologian)