If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Ernest Holmes

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily Dickinson

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
William Osler

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
Jerry Garcia

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen