You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You
can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will
forsake the others.
Marcel Proust

There are those that travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet
the same. The success has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.
Mark Caine

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited
set of targets.
Nido Qubein

Those who have a "why" to live, can bear with almost any "how."
Frank Victor

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

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning
to your life.
Robert Browning

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the
difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody,
it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
P. J. O'Rourke

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Abraham Maslow

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

There is little room for wisdom when one is full of judgement.
Malcolm Hein

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll
find it there.
Robb Sagendorph

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes
late.
Felix Frankfurter

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial
intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a
feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas Hardy

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars - they are decades of wisdom reduced to
invaluable hours.
Mark Victor Hansen

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world
will pass you by.
Akio Morita

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophenes

The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Pittacus

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; skill is knowing how to do it; and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do
well.
John Milton

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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