Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
- William Ralph Inge

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
- John Andrew Holmes

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
- Jefferson Davis

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.
- Romain Gary

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
- Dean Rusk

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
- James Lane Allen

To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.
- John Henry Patterson

Despite some of the horrors and barbarisms of modern life which appall and grieve us, life has - or has the potential of such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
- Arthur H. Compton

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
- Thomas H. Huxley

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.
- Ernest L. Woodward

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
- Wendell Willkie

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
- Lord Halifax

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
- Leigh Hunt

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
- Stewart L. Udall

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.
- Abraham Lincoln

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
- Winston Churchill

Patience is passion tamed.
- Lyman Abbott

We must dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.
- Thomas Jefferson

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-  Charles Victor Cherbuliez

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
- J. Andrews

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
- Howard W. Newton