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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.


--George Carlin

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Mary Wollstonecraft

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

-Albert Einstein

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

Thornton Wilder

"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.


-Truman Capote

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."

Leo Tolstoy

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.


--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere."

Bram Stoker