It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Andy Rooney

The control center of your life is your attitude.

Norman Cousins

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Les Brown

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

Paul Gauguin

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Gustave Flaubert

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Pablo Picasso

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Edward Gibbon

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

Insecurity is a waste of time.

Diane von Furstenberg

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Erma Bombeck

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Jim Rohn

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Robin Williams

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

Matsuo Basho

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

George Foreman

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Henry Moore

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Charles Kettering

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

Dave Barry

There is something more important than logic: imagination

Alfred Hitchcock

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

Eve Arnold

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Julius Caesar

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No is not necessarily a mean word. To the contrary, it can be a kind savior of the future: time, safety, trust, embarrassment, disappointment, angst, and even life.

Jelani K. Asantewa