Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

~ Goran Persson 

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to - if there are no doors or windows - he walks through a wall. 

~ Bernard Malamud, novelist and short-story writer (1914-1986) 

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. 

~ Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983) 

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. 

~ Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778) 

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

~ Bob Hope 

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

~ Erma Bombeck

Love truth, but pardon error. 

~ Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778) 

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. 

~ Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE) 

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. 

~ Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978) 

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! 

~ Gustave Flaubert, novelist (1821-1880)

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. 

~ Hector Berlioz, composer (1803-1869) 

Learning is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. 

~ Chinese proverb 

A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. 

~ Grace Hopper, computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral (1906-1992) 

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. 

~ Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (1918-2013) 

A library is thought in cold storage. 

~ Herbert Samuel, politician and diplomat (1870-1963) 

Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. 

~ Flannery O'Connor, writer (1925-1964) 

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

~ Bob Marley 

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and bones. 
~ Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) 

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. 

~ Madeleine L'Engle, writer (1918-2007)