"Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved." -Mignon McLaughlin

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus

"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him." -George Bernard Shaw

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." -George Bernard Shaw

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -Mark Twain

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." -Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain

"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." -Aldous Huxley

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." -Ernest Hemingway

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow." -Johann von Goethe

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." -Kahlil Gibran

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." -Joseph Campbell

"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves." -E. M. Forster

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." -T. S. Eliot

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." -Maya Angelou

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." -Richard Bach

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." -Ben Franklin

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." -Lao-Tzu

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." -Bjarne Stroustrup

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." -William Shakespeare

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character." -W. Somerset Maugham

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." -W. Somerset Maugham

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius