- St. Aquinas, Thomas (Italian Roman Catholic priest)
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
- Augustus, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Roman Emperor)
"The universe is change, our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Boldt, Laurence G
"The innate creativity which every human being is heir to, returns to all who will give up complaining about the hand they have been dealt and learn to play the one they have."
- Buddha (a.k.a. Gautama Buddha)
"Do not cherish the unworthy desire that the changeable might become the unchanging."
- Bush, Barbara (former First Lady)
"Never lose sight that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people."
- Chopra, Deepok, M.D.
"Just one year ago 98 percent of the atoms in our bodies were not there. It's as if we live inside buildings whose bricks are being systematically taken out and replaced."
- Clemens, Samuel Longhorne (a.k.a. Mark Twain)
"I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool and all his works must be contemplated with respect."
- Confucious
"A journey of ten thousand miles begins with a single step."
- Edison, Thomas
"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually disguises itself as hard work."
- Einstein, Albert
"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self."
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
- Epictetus (Greek Stoic philosopher)
"We are not troubled by things, but rather by the opinion which we have of things."
- Franklin, Benjamin
"Genius is nothing but a greater apptitude for patience."
- Gandhi, Mahatma
"Be the change that you want to see in the world."
- Gyatso, Tenzin, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
"With the realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."
- Kennedy, Robert F.
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Laozi (philosopher of ancient China)
"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold onto. If you are not afraid of dying there is nothing you cannot achieve."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."
- Maslow, Abraham (American psychologist)
"He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail."
- Mencius (Chinese philosopher)
"The superior man will not manifest either narrow mindedness or want of self respect."
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
- Schweitzer, Albert (Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician)
"Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them."
- Seneca
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- Seneca, Marcus Annaeus
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
- Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro (Japanese author on Buddhism, Zen and Shin)
"There is within oneself that which knows."
- Suzuki, Shunryu (Soto Zen priest)
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities."
- Socrates
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
- Sophocles
"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom."
- Mother Theresa
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
- Thoreau, Henry David
"The fault finder will find faults even in paradise."
