“Do not confuse the value of learning something with the actual value of the thing learned.”

        — Ted Nyman (@tnm)

“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.”

        — Edna Woolman Chase

“I think of optimism as a brave choice rather than an ignorant position.”

        — Unknown

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and informed just to be undecided about them.”

        — Laurence J. Peter

“You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

        — Ann Lamott

“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.”

        — Unknown

“Outside noisy, inside empty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

        — Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

        — Milton Berle

“Leadership is action, not position.”

        — Donald H. McGannon

“The most valuable commodity of the twenty-first century will be undivided attention.”

        — Phil Cooke

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

        — Les Brown

“So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free.”

        — Jason Love

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”

        — Sidney Greenberg

“Every day one should at least listen to a little song, read a good poem, look at a fine painting, and, if possible, say a few reasonable words.”

        — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal”

        — Emma Goldman

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”

        — Robert Graves

“Never try to look cool and learn something at the same time. You must have an awkward phase.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The shortest answer is doing.”

        — George Herbert

“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.”

        — Soren Kierkegaard