The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil Gibran

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David Thoreau

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
Warren Buffett

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington