“A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.”

        — Edgar A. Shoaff

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

        — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

        — Upton Sinclair

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

        — Albert Einstein

“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”

        — Paul Eldridge

“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.”

        — James Freeman Clarke

“To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.”

        — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

        — Stephen King

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

        — Clifton Fadiman

“Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.”

        — Katharine Brush

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela

“Often we don’t really need advice or guidance from each other. Sometimes we just need a friend to deposit courage into our soul.”

        — Mike Foster

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”

        — Robert Anthony

“Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It’ll be the only one trying.”

        — Jack Lang

“Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it necessary? Is it true? Does it improve upon the silence?”

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

        — Carrie Fisher

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”

        — Raymond Hull

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.”

        — Sydney Smith

“Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.”

        — Will Smith

“To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

        — E. E. Cummings

“Design without a cost target is just art class”

        — Clothing designer from Nike

“Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.”

        — Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi)