Words to live (and sometimes laugh) by...

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream,
only plan but also believe. - - -Anatole France

If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few
blisters.- - -Abigail Van Buren

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he       
is kicking you in the seat of the pants.  - - -Walter Winchell

What the hell--you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't
just avoid.- - -Katherine Hepburn

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives,
stop thinking and go on.- - -Andrew Jackson

If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star.- - -P. T. Barnum

Follow your bliss.- - -Joseph Campbell

It is better aim for the stars and hit the moon, than to aim for
the trees, and hit the ground.- - -Suzanne Oggenfuss

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
- - -Duke Snider

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
     - - -Ralph Vaull Starr

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry.
- - -Henry Ward Beecher

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would
have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and
storms. - - -George Eliot

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your
opponent has taken the right side.
- - -Charles Caleb Colton

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
- - -George S. Patton, Jr.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the
strong--but that is the way to bet it.
     - - -Damon Runyon

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
- - -Margaret Thatcher

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
- - -Louis L'Amour

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life
you will have been all of these.
- - -George Washington Carver

The best things in life are nearest : Breath in your nostrils,
light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand,
the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the
stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that
daily duties and daily bread are sweetest things in life.
     - - -Robert Louis Stevenson

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else
knows.      - - -Aristotle Onassis

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was
put up.
     - - -G. K. Chesterton

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand,
until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
- - -Ursula K. Le Guin

It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what
one is not.
     - - -Andre Gide

Character is much easier kept than recovered.
- - -Thomas Paine

Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything
else on it... like lunch or dinner.
     - - -George Burns

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do
the thing you think you cannot do.
     - - -Eleanor Roosevelt

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- - -Yogi Berra

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his
friends.
     - - -Baltasar Gracian

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies
will not believe you anyway.
     - - -Elbert Hubbard

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
     - - -Michael Pritchard

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby
become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss
also looks into you.
     - - -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "Beyond Good and Evil"

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
- - -Johann Friedrich von Schiller

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and
forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
     - - -Thomas Szasz

Forgive your enemies, but don't forget their names.
     - - -John F. Kennedy

Those who do not plan for the future will have to live through
it anyway.
     - - -Len Fisher

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
     - - -Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory gives herself only to those who always dreamed of her.
     - - -Charles de Gaulle

The good die young --- because they see it's no use living if
you've got to be good.
     - - -John Barrymore

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
- - -Eldridge Cleaver

Hatred - The anger of the weak.
     - - -Alphonse Daulet

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
     - - -Frank Herbert "Dune"

He who hesitates is last.
     - - -Mae West

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have
left it, we can never return.
     - - -Nicolas Boileau

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.
     - - -Victor Hugo

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
     - - -Lauren Bacall

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
     - - -Joseph Joubert

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
     - - -Eleanor Roosevelt

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground
from beneath your feet.
     - - -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can bet that everyone
     else is doing so.- - -Ed Johnston

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
     - - -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
     - - -János Arany

Those who fail to remember history probably aren't doing so well
in algebra and physics, either.- - -P. J. O'Rourke

Don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
     - - -William J. Bennett

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is
right, for the minority which is right will one day be the
majority.
     - - -William Jennings Bryan

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
     - - -Bernard Berenson

Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money
to do so.
     - - -Josh Billings

When you have a lot of things to do, get your nap out of the
way first.
     - - -Jeremiah Hines

Sometimes you can observe a lot by watching.
- - -Yogi Berra

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
     - - -Laurence Stern

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and
has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
     - - -H. G. Wells

Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.
     - - -Mimi Pond

We are what we pretend to be, so we'd better be careful about
what we pretend to be.
     - - -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Quality never goes out of style.
     - - -Levi Strauss

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and
     quick to anger.- - -J. R. R. Tolkien

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
     - - -William Safire

Say as little as possible while appearing to be awake.
     - - -William P. Rogers

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
     - - -W. C. Fields

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the
talent to the dark place where it leads.
     - - -Erica Jong

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our
wits to grow sharper.- - -Eden Phillpots

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
     - - -Lord Chesterfield