It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t. – Martin Van Buren, 8th U.S. President
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few. – Plutarch
Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object. – Herman Hesse, novelist
No legacy is so rich as honesty. – William Shakespeare
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
Fall seven times, stand up eight! – Japanese proverb
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read. – Mark Twain
They also serve who only stand and wait. – John Milton
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. – Anonymous
Do, or do not. There is no try. – Yoda, Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
Ability is nothing without opportunity. – Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Louis-Hector Berlioz, French composer
It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see. – Henry David Thoreau
What a blessing is the childish nature which clothes dull surroundings in fancy dress and drives dull cares away. – Anonymous 19th-century female pioneer
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. – George Edward Moore, British philosopher
A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day, he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. – Albert Schweitzer, German physician, humanitarian
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! – Oscar Wilde
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. – Logan Pearsall Smith, American writer
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. – Chinese proverb
“‘Be yourself’ is the worst advice you can give to some people.” – Tom Masson
What a blessing is the childish nature which clothes dull surroundings in fancy dress and drives dull cares away. – Anonymous 19th-century female pioneer
An unwillingness to believe in impending danger is a very human quality. – Howard Fast (writing as E. V. Cunningham) from The Case of the Poisoned Éclairs
If there was no such thing as coincidence, there would be no such word. – Heron Carvic
It appears to me that it is the special province of music to move the heart. – Karl P.E. Bach, German composer
All who joy would win
Must share it, –
Happiness was born a Twin. – Lord Byron, English poet
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest.
– Alexander Pope, English poet
May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist and poet
He who laughs, lasts. – Mary. P. Poole
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays and confidant tomorrows. – William Wordsworth
Thoughts on the Edge of Forever 