"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake."
                                                         -Henry David Thoreau,
                                                                     "Walden"

"When you speak of failure, you attract failure. When you speak of success, you attract success."
                                                         -Napoleon Hill

"The only real sin on this earth is not to fight, not to realize the possibilities of your personality."
                                                          -Anonymous

"There are four things that can never be taken back: A spent arrow, a spoken word, a missed opportunity and an expended life."
                                                          -Knattob

"Never let it be said that I was afraid to try something  just because I didn't know anything about it."
                                                         -John Steinbeck,
                                                       "Journal of a Novel"

"As much as he imagines he cannot do something, as much is he determined not to do it, therefore it is impossible for him to do it."
                                                         - B. Spinoza

"Loyalty comes before everything else - except honor."
                                                         -Anonymous

"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have a worldlike reputation because I think two or three times a week."
                                                         -George Bernard Shaw

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all man - That is genius."
                                                          -Ralph W. Emerson

"Nothing is so unpleasant as being executed in silence."
                                                          -Voltaire

"… it seems to me that a man's life goes - up a little or down - and then a flat place, and then another quick change and another plateau."
                                                          -John Steinbeck,
                                                       "Journal of a Novel"

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
                                                         -Oprah Winfrey

"Never believe that you don't have what it takes."
                                                          -Napoleon Hill

"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the ignorant, and kindness from the unkind, yet, I'm ungrateful to those teachers."
                                                         -Khalil Gibran

"… life was a kind of ticket. Your passage was clearly marked out … The destination … unalterable … but even a passenger on a good train might conceivably be forced off at the wrong station  … discarded without real reason. "                             
                                                         -John Gunther
                                                         "The Lost City"

"People of a private nature are often misundersood because they are too shy and too proud to explain themselves."
                                                         -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Gossip is like water. It probes surfaces for their weak places, until it finds the breakthrough point, so it was only a matter of time before the good people of "Q" hit upon the most shameful, scandalous explanation of all."
                                                          -Salman Rushdie,
                                                          "Shame"                     

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
                                                         -George Bernard Shaw