A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
Barack Obama 

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Lewis Carroll

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”
Chuck Palahniuk

“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too. So we’re really not that different, me and you.”
Colin Raye

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
Winston Churchill

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
William James

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mohandas Gandhi

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” “If people are truly, madly, deeply in love with each other, they will find a way.”
Morrie Schwartz

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.
Will Rogers

I’ll tell you one thing: Don’t ever give anybody your best advice, because they’re not going to follow it.
Jack Nicholson

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”
Chuck Palahniuk

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”
Tom Krause

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
Jamie Paolinetti

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
Oscar Wilde

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald Reagan

I know I’m an acquired taste – I’m anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
Tori Amos

If you haven’t got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
Victoria Beckham

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Bono

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Bhudda

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
Mel Brooks

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
Bill Gates

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.
Denzel Washington

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood

“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.”
Katherine Hepburn