I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

~ Oscar Wilde

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

~ Michael Jordan

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

~ Robert Laurence Binyon

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

~Steve Jobs

If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

~ Mark Twain

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

~ Kierkegaard

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

~ Henry David Thoreau

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.

~ Robert Graves

What then is freedom?

The power to live as one wishes.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero