Benjamin Franklin

Speak little, do much.

Peter McArthur

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

Jerry Holkins a.k.a. Tycho Brahe

Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can’t tell me that we are done making the world.

George Gershwin

Life is a lot like jazz… it's best when you improvise.

Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Malcolm X

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.

George Lucas

I have come to the conclusion that there is a force larger than the individual. It is controlled by the individuals, and it controls them. All I'm saying is that the pure soul is connected to a larger energy field that you would begin to understand if you went all the way back and saw yourself in your purest sense.

Conrad Hilton

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Publilius Syrus

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

David Weidner, MarketWatch

Whether or not you support the Occupy movement, it’s stomach-turning to think about the NYPD ripping up camp sites, spraying mace and manhandling the disenfranchised, while the mayor dines with a Wall Street CEO who not only bet against U.S. homeowners in the mortgage meltdown but structured deals for his favorite billionaire clients, only to shaft investors on the other side of the deal.

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Maya Angelou

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

Rush Limbaugh

What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute.

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher (55AD - 135 AD)

It is not external events themselves that cause us distress, but they way in which we think about them, our interpretation of their significance. It is our attitudes and reactions that give us trouble. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Lao Tzu

Resisting change is like holding your breath. If you're really successful at it, you'll die.

Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.