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- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
- Robert Half
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
- Jonathan Winters
- You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)
- Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
- Dorothy Bernard
- If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
- Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
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