“Keep the other person’s well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.”

Betty White

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”  Steve Jobs

“There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.”

Vauvenargues

“Never yet has law formed a great man; ’tis liberty that breeds giants and heroes.”

Friedrich Schiller
The Robbers

“Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.”

Noah Webster

“Vexed sailors curse the rain
For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.”

Edmund Waller

“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.”

Dag Hammarskjold

“Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.”

Phillips Brooks

“Learn from the mistakes of others – you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Martin Vanbee

“When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.”

W. J. Slim