"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes." Hannah Arendt

"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." Anne Frank

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." Albert Einstein

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake." Matthew Prior

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." Vernon Howard

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." George Eliot

"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder." Frederick William Faber

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." Jean Paul

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." Charlotte Whitton

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." Orson Scott Card

"Patience is the companion of wisdom." Saint Augustine

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." Epicurus

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." James Baldwin

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle." Alexis de Tocqueville

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness." Stewart Udall

"The pen is the tongue of the mind." Horace

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." Simone Weil

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." Dylan Thomas

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." Francesco Guicciardini

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." Daniel J. Boorstin