Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
~Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
~Confucius

Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
~Deborah Tannen

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
~Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be.
~James P. Hogan

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
~Isaac Asimov

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
~Patricia Sampson

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Anger is only one letter short of danger.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

He who loses money, loses much; he, who loses a friend, loses much more.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

He, who loses faith, loses all.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

We started our group - our circle of friends - and like that circle -there is no beginning, nor an end.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
~Margaret Thatcher

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
~Dalai Lama

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
~Napoleon Hill

Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
~Mark Twain

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.
~Carol Burnett

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
~James Dean

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
~Mary Kay Ash

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
~Scott Hamilton

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~Martin Luther, Jr. King

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.
~W. Somerset Maugham

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~George Bernard Shaw

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.
~Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do.
~Helen Keller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
~Robert H. Schuller

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
~Harry Truman

Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
~Robert F. Kennedy

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

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
~Katherine Hepburn

Success is dependent on effort.
~Sophocles

Success is just a matter of attitude.
~Darcy E. Gibbons

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
~Alan Kay

The course of true love never did run smooth.
~William Shakespeare

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
~William James (1842-1910)

The first duty of love is to listen.
~Paul Tillich

If everything on earth were sensible, nothing would happen.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind.
~Gandhi

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
~Norman Vincent Peale

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~Milton Berle

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
~Benjamin Franklin