Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. 

~ William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
~ John Wooden

To read fast is as bad as to eat in a hurry. 
~ Vilhelm Ekelund, poet (1880-1949)

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. 

~ Robert Brault, writer (b. 1938

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.  

~  Francois De La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. 

~ John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. 

~ Edith Cavell, nurse and humanitarian (1865-1915)

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. 

~ Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964) 

Habit with him was all the test of truth, 

It must be right: I've done it from my youth. 

~ George Crabbe, poet and naturalist (1754-1832) 

Never cut what you can untie. 

~ Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) 

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. 

~ Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (1935-2004) 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. 

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. 

~ Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. 

~ Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. 

~ Charlie Chaplin, actor, director, and composer (1889-1977) 

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. 
~ Sophia Loren, actress (b. 1934)

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. 

~ John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)