Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

~ Warren Buffett

Forgive the action, forget the intent.....( as written in the fortune cookie )

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

~ Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

~Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

I needed to live and to suffer a lot to understand that love is an act of faith.

~ Paulo Coelho

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

~ Joesph Roux

Self-control is more indispensible than gunpowder.

~ Henry Morton Stanley

Every day I do something new. That way I make time my ally, not my enemy.

~ Paulo Coelho

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart ?

~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn , Novelist , Nobel Laureate ( 1918-2008 )

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

~ Paulo Coelho

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

~ Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.

~Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Everybody says I am in denial , but really , I am not.

~ As seen on a Car Bumper Sticker.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

~Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (1929-1945)

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

~Mahatma Gandhi

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

~ Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

~Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931)

People who love in the expectation of being loved in return are wasting their time.

~ Paulo Coelho

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

~ Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (1917-1986)

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)

When your legs are tired, walk with your heart. But please, don't stop. 

~ Paulo Coelho