We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. 

~ Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. 

~ Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

Walking is man's best medicine. 

~ Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 BCE)

Anger as soon as fed is dead , 'Tis starving makes it fat. 

~ Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. 

~ Robert Fulghum, author (b. 1937)

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882) 

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain. 

~ Sara Teasdale, poet (1884-1933) 

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain. 

~ Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. 

~ Spanish proverb

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words. 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. 

~ Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) 

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. 

~ Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885) 

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.

~ E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931)

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

~ Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

~ Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow. 

~ Saadi, poet (c.1213-1291) 

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. 

~ Milan Kundera, novelist, playwright, and poet (b.1929)

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. 

~ Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809)