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- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
- Brendan Francis
- Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully
- Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932
- Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor
- I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
- The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
- Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC - 27 BC)
- Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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