"Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

"A memory is the life past, no one can take from you, forever it lasts." - Verka Paunovska Trajcesica

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due." - W R Inge

"To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise." - Ieyasu

"Youth will be served, every dog has his day and mine has been a fine one." - George Barrow

"There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are only consequences." - Robert G Ingersoll

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Marcus Aurelius

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." - Will Rogers

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea." - Francis Bacon

"Things do not change, we change." - Henri Thoreau

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Anger manages everything badly." - Stadius

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep." - Woody Allen

"Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight ?" - Christopher Marlowe

"Force is not a remedy." - John Bright

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." - Charles F. Kettering

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot

"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." - Calvin Coolidge

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open." - Rose Lane

"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception." - Plato

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." - Oscar Wilde

"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." - Elizabeth Harrison

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin proverb

"People may or may not say what they mean...but they always say something designed to get what they want." - David Mamet

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." - Max DuPree

"O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott

"Never make a defence or apology before you be accused." - Charles I, King of England

"Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!" - John Greenleaf Whittier

"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread." - Alexander Pope

"It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived-forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position." - Søren Kierkegaard

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so." - John Stuart Mill

"A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent." - William Blake

"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that "Carpe Diem" is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow ?" - Lord Byron

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." - J H Payne

"One cannot shut ones eyes to things not seen with eyes." - Charles Morgan

"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade." - Tom Peters from a book called "The Pursuit of Wow!"

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." - Lucille s. Harper

"The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart." - Mencius

"I'm not apologising, I'm saying I'm sorry, which is quite different." - Jessica Anderson

"Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul." - Shueur Zalman

"Time and attention are our scarcest commodities - use them wisely." - unknown