"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Aristotle on Hope
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Borge, Victor on Laughter
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"You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself."

Barrymore, Ethel on Laughter
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"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."

Borman, Frank on Capitalism
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"If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work."

Shakespeare, William on Plays
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"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Koestler, Arthur on Illusion
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"To create something you must be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Creativity
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"Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."

Mill, John Stuart on Originality
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"He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted."

Auerbach, Red on Confidence
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"To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies."

Auerbach, Red on Death and Dying
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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on Action
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"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

O'Brien, Michael on Confidence
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"Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning."

Green, Hubert on Confidence
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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on Reality
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"Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun."

Barrett, Colleen C. on Work
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"Inspiration comes of working every day."

Baudelaire, Charles on Work
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"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

Carty, Margaret on Teams and Teamwork
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"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Perseverance
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"To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do."

Blow, Susan on Work
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"Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."

Mason, Jackie on Marriage
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Flowers
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on Change
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"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Shaw, George Bernard on Debt
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"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan."

Ciano, Galeazzo on Losers and Losing
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"Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?"

Virgil on Defeat
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"Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

Nixon, Richard M. on Defeat
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"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."

Plato on Teachers and Teaching
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"Action conquers fear."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on Fear
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"First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided."

Jean, General Iberico Saint on Oppression
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"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on Duty
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"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom."

Twain, Mark on Pessimism
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"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."

Eastwood, Clint on Pessimism
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"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on Pessimism
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Carlyle, Thomas on Age and Aging
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"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."

Wilson, Earl on Problems
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"I used to be snow white, but I drifted."

West, Mae on Virtue
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"I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal."

Carlson, Curtis on Goals
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"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."

Epictetus on Knowledge
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"Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Keller, Helen on Happiness
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