Do, or do not.There is no ‘try’. (Yoda)

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. (Jimmy Durante)

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. (E. E. Cummings)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in.Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell. (Aldous Huxley)

I have nothing to declare except my genius. (Oscar Wildeupon arriving at U.S. customs 1882)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.(Napoleon Bonaparte)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it. (John F. Kennedywhen asked what is his favorite song)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)