Here is a list of some favorite quotes of mine.

“Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.”

- Yoda

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Serve and thou shall be served.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Real strength is not just a condition of one’s muscle, but a tenderness in one’s spirit.”

- McCallister Dodds

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

- Marcel Proust

“The best things in life aren’t things.”

- Art Buchwald

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.”

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.”

- Bertrand Russell

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”

- Randy Pausch

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

- Walter Bagehot

“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”

- Kin Hubbard

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”

- Stephen King

“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”

- Jack Handey

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

- Samuel Johnson

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”

- Rick Cook

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

- Pablo Picasso

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

- Robert Frost

“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”

- Henry Ford

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

- Larry Hardiman

“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.”

- Scott Adams

“If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.”

- Emerson Pugh

“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”

- A. Sachs

“In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it”.

- Francis Thompson

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

- Oscar Wilde

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!”

- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (New Living Translation)

“Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.”

- Jules Feiffer

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”

- Richard Feynman

“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.”

- William Feather

“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.”

- Edward R. Murrow

“The proper function of man is to live – not to exist.”

- Jack London

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

- Mark Twain

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

- Christopher Morley

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”

- Galileo Galilei

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

- Isaac Newton

“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”

- Henry Stimson

“If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

- John Quincy Adams

“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.”

- Robert Benchley

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

- Christopher Morley

“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”

- E. B. White

“If you want truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.”

- Sent-ts’an

“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.”

- Doug Larson

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