People of little understanding ...

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

- - Samuel Richardson -

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The problem with doing nothing

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

- Benjamin Franklin -

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We worry about what a child ...

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

- Stacia Tauscher -

As we express our gratitude

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy -

Scientists

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

- Hans Eysenck -

Imagination..

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

- Joseph Addison -

A little sincerity

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde -

The greatest discovery

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

- William James -

If you have made mistakes..

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford -

What is more annoying...

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

- Bertrand Russell -

The penalty for success

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor -

Great ability develops...

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

- Baltasar Gracian -

Envied...

It is better to be envied than pitied.

-Herodotus -