| "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." William Plomer |
| "Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha." Robert Brault |
| "In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." Harold Geneen |
| "An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything." Lynn Johnston |
| "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." Leonard Cohen |
| "The greatest man in history was the poorest." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages." Robert Bosch |
| "The more we try to rest ourselves from our egos, the deeper we sink into it." Emile M. Cioran |
| "I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, so we're really not that different, me and you." Colin Raye |
| "Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy." Chogyam Trungpa |
| "Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." Charles Dickens |
| "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." Albert Einstein |
| "Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization." Arthur Keith |
| "They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them." Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed." Mason Cooley |
| "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." Henry Ward Beecher |
| "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle |
| "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." Doug Larson |
| "The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." Napoleon Hill |
| "Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." Ray Knight |
| "In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air." Jonathan Raban |
| "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice." Bill Cosby |
| "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust." Gertrude Jekyll |
| ""It's never crowded along the extra mile."" Dr. Wayne Dyer |
| "For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." John F. Kennedy |
| "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." Groucho Marx |
| "One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low." Thomas Fuller |
| "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." Louisa May Alcott |
| "It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self." Francis Bacon |
| "Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect." Esther Dyson |
