Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. (Washington Irving)
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. (Joseph Addison)
The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. (Confucius)
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. (Woody Allen)
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. (Miguel de Cervantes)
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. (Sam Levenson)
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. (Seneca)
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. (Beverly Sills)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. (Mark Twain)