"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

-Michael Crichton ( 1942-2008 )

"People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall."

-Thomas Merton

"An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”"

-Anonymous ( Origin of the story can not be reliably sourced. )

"Mr. Keynes’ aggregates conceal the most fundamental mechanisms of change."

-F. A. Hayek ( from a review of Keynes’s 1930 book, 'A Treatise on Money' )

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

-Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill ( Potentially misattributed to Churchill )

"I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office."

-Milton Friedman

"I know that I know nothing."

-Socrates ( From Plato’s Apology of Socrates )

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

-Aristotle

"Traditions are experiments that worked."

-Anonymous

"When I am weaker than you I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles"

-Frank Herbert

"You’re big and ugly enough to do it yourself."

-Anonymous ( Old expression, sometimes said as 'old enough and ugly enough'. )

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

-Eleanor Roosevelt ( Potentially apocryphal )

"People who brag about their IQ are losers."

-Stephen Hawking

"What it is that we place as the highest good, that which is placed above us as our guiding star - as the thing that pulls us forward into its good - is indistinguishable from a god."

-Jonathan Pageau ( From a speech at the 2023 ARC Conference )

"Whatever it is you're chasing right now - it ain't it. Whatever it is you think is the most important - it's not. It's not the most important. The Supreme good is not money, it's not energy, it's not Freedom, it's not family, it's not knowledge, it's not safety, it's not diversity and it's not inclusion though all those things are good. Yeah they should never be treated as the Supreme good lest they become idols and gods that will tyrannize us."

-Jonathan Pageau

"Governments never learn. Only people learn."

-Milton Friedman

"You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them."

-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

-Napoleon Bonaparte

"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world."

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

-Anonymous ( Based on a quote by Hunter S. Thompson regarding the TV business )

"A high IQ and low information is a dangerous combination."

-Thomas Sowell ( From an Interview with Peter Robinson concerning his book 'Social Justice Fallacies' )

"So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."

-Dark Helmet ( From the movie Spaceballs )

"A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla army wins if he does not lose."

-Henry Kissinger

"A genius! For the last 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day and now they call me a genius!"

-Pablo Sarasate ( Violinist (1844-1908) )

"You can fail many times, but you aren’t a failure until you begin to blame somebody else."

-John Burroughs ( Naturalist (1837-1921) )

"Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind."

-Otto Octavius ( From the movie Spiderman 2 )

"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

-Desmond Tutu ( Also attributed to Moshe Dayan )

"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die."

-Babe Ruth ( from the movie 'The Sandlot' )

"Luck often enough, will save a man, if his courage hold."

-Buliwyf ( From the movie ‘The 13th Warrior’ )

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Jean Rasczak ( From the movie Starship Troopers )

"We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line."

-Joe Biden

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal."

-Jean-Luc Picard ( From the movie Star Trek : Generations )

"With great power comes great responsibility."

-Uncle Ben ( From Spiderman )

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

-Jesus Christ ( The Bible, Mark 8:36 )

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

-Harvey Dent ( from the movie 'The Dark Knight' )

"Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."

-George Bernard Shaw ( From Don Juan in Hell: From Man and Superman )

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

-Isaac Newton ( From his memoirs )

"If God does not exist then everything is permitted."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky ( Central premise of the book 'The Brothers Karamazov'. Often attributed to Dostoevsky, may not have been said directly. )

"Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them."

-Clarence Thomas ( From Supreme Court Opinion for No. 20–1199 )

"[K]nowledge is open-ended in the sense that no matter how much we know, this is as nothing compared with what we know that we do not know."

-Israel Kirzner ( from page 198 of Israel Kirzner’s 1984 paper “The Open-Endedness of Knowledge” )

"Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."

-Jesus Christ ( John 8:35-36 )

"A wise person doesn't fall down the same hill twice."

-Anonymous ( African Proverb )

"Do what you will, gentlemen; you cannot give money to some without taking it away from others. If you absolutely insist on draining the taxpayer dry, well and good; but at least do not treat him like a fool. Do not tell him: “I am taking this money from you to repay you for what I have already taken from you.”"

-Frédéric Bastiat ( from 'Economic Sophisms' )

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

-Mark Twain

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."

-C.S. Lewis ( From the book 'Mere Christianity' )

"naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret, (you may drive out nature with a pitchfork, but she will always return)."

-Horace ( From Epistles I )

"If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave."

-Fulton J. Sheen

"Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda."

-Peter Kreeft

"Treat what you don’t have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you’d crave them if you didn’t have them. But be careful. Don’t feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them —that it would upset you to lose them."

-Marcus Aurelius

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

-Mark Twain

"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish."

-F. A. Hayek

"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."

-Eric Hoffer ( The Temper of Our Time )

"Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions."

-Richard L. Evans

"A hypocrite is not somebody who sometimes fails to live up to their standards. That's just being human. A hypocrite is somebody who tells everybody else not to do anything and thinks there is an exception for them."

-Matt Fradd ( From Pints with Acquinas Podcast )

"We must never stop failing because the minute we do we've failed!"

-Edgin Darvis ( From the movie 'Dungeons and Dragons : Honor Among Thieves' )

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

-Benjamin Disraeli

"If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."

-James Madison

"When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile."

-Peter Kreeft

"One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

-Nikola Tesla ( "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934) )

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

-G.K. Chesterton

"It's just human nature. Good things just happen, bad things are someone's fault."

-Seamus Coughlin

"Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer!"

-Rick Sanchez ( From Rick and Morty season 4, episode 3 “One Crew Over the Crewcoo’s Morty )

"Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true."

-John Kenneth Galbraith ( From A Life in Our Times: Memoirs )

"... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around."

-William F. Buckley, Jr.

"I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way."

-Voltaire

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

-Voltaire

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

-Voltaire

"Forgive your enemies - it will drive them nuts!"

-Anonymous ( Sign at a truck stop )

"Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

-Andrew Fletcher

"Ver es hot di hak, git dem k'nak. ( He who has the ax, gives the whacks. )"

-Yiddish Proverb

"Intent does not matter. Only Consequences."

-Kratos ( From the game 'God of War : Ragnarok' )

"Der mentsh trakht un got lakht (Man plans and God laughs)"

-Yiddish Proverb

"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company."

-Anonymous ( From 'Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation', a school book of George Washington )

"If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children."

-Thomas Sowell ( From Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays )

"Il y a dans le coeur de l' homme un vide en forme de Dieu que rien de ce qui a été créé ne peux remplir mais seulement le créateur qui s'est fait connaître par Jésus. (There is a God shaped hole in the heart of man that can only be filled by the creator who made himself known through Jesus)"

-Blaise Pascal ( Pensées )

"Caveat emptor"

-Anonymous ( Let the buyer beware )

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

-C.S. Lewis

"Since it is so likely that children will met cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of Brave Knights & Heroic Courage."

-C.S. Lewis

"When you want to help people you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself you tell them what they want to hear."

-Thomas Sowell

"Human beings need bitter with the sweet."

-Darby O’Gill ( From the movie ‘Darby O’Gill and the little people’ )

"The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie."

-Joseph Schumpeter

"Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own."

-Milton Friedman

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

-Aldous Huxley ( Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays )

"But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward."

-Sylvester Stallone ( From the movie Rocky Balboa )

"If you want something done you have to do it yourself."

-Anonymous

"You keep on playing and watch your money - you'll land on your feet."

-Del Paxton ( From the Movie 'That Thing You Do!' )

"It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think."

-Thomas Sowell

"Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence."

-Thomas Sowell

"I have never had much patience with…[those] always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. I have always had high regard for the man who could tell me how to succeed."

-Booker T. Washington

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."

-Viktor Emil Frankl

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds"

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."

-Andrew Jackson

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

-Harry S. Truman

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

-John F. Kennedy

"Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars."

-Evel Knievel

"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."

-Dr. John Trainer

"This should not be viewed as a setback; it should be viewed as the next step in the process."

-Graeme Parker

"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man."

-Blue Oyster Cult ( from the song 'Godzilla' )

"Anarchism is not a location it's a relationship. It just means one person is not in a position to impose their authority on another so anarchism is the basis of all peaceful relationships."

-Michael Malice

"Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days."

-Thomas Sowell ( Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays (ed. Hoover Inst Press, 1993) )

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."

-Wayne Gretzky

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

-Anonymous ( Often attributed to Oscar Wilde )

"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Boy, I love meeting people’s moms. It’s like reading an instruction manual as to why they’re nuts."

-Ted Lasso ( From season 2 of the TV show ‘Ted Lasso’ )

"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."

-Henry Hazlitt ( from the Book 'Economics in One Lesson' )

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

-Sun Tzu ( from The Art of War by Sun Tzu )

"A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies."

-Anonymous ( Proverbs 31:10 )

"When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything."

-G.K. Chesterton

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

-The Lord Tennyson

"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."

-The Lord Tennyson ( Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' )

"for the deed's sake have I done the deed, In uttermost obedience to the King."

-The Lord Tennyson ( from Idylls of the King )

"There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself."

-Leo Tolstoy ( from “Three Methods Of Reform” in Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian (1900) )

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

-Benjamin Franklin

"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

-Martin Luther King Jr. ( Washington National Cathedral, March 31, 1968. )

"Sometimes I guess there just ain’t enough rocks."

-Forrest Gump ( From the movie Forrest Gump )

"[to God] I know, I know. We are Your chosen people. But, once in a while, can't You choose someone else?"

-Tevye ( from the film 'A Fiddler on the Roof' )

"In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on."

-Robert Frost

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King Jr. ( Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches )

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

-Henry David Thoreau

"I Can't Give You a Brain, But I Can Give You a Diploma."

-L. Frank Baum ( From 'The Wizard of Oz' )

"If you don’t like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes."

-Samuel Clemens ( AKA Mark Twain )

"Kell’ onni on, se onnen kätkeköön. (Don't brag about your happiness)"

-Anonymous ( Finnish Proverb )

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

-Marcus Aurelius ( From the book Meditations )

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!"

-Edmond Dantes ( From the 2002 movie “The Count of Monte Cristo” )

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

-Thomas Edison

"Sanity is not statistical."

-George Orwell ( From the novel '1984' )

"Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems."

-Sun Tzu ( From the book ‘The Art of War’ )

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."

-Edith Lovejoy Pierce

"The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch."

-Bart Mancuso ( Captain Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October )

"The main point of Christianity is that it is a religion for sinners. Jesus made that very clear. When the Pharisees asked his disciples, "Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?" he said, "I come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance." Only a small fraction of sinners repent and do good things but only a small fraction of good people are led by their religion to do bad things."

-Freeman Dyson

"What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams."

-Werner Herzog

"Memento Mori"

-Anonymous ( Latin for 'remember that you [have to] die' )

"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."

-Optimus Prime

"I am a firm believer in the people. If Given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer."

-Abraham Lincoln ( Refrigerator Magnet )

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach."

-Charles Dickens ( Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol )

"T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

-Clement Clarke Moore ( From the poem 'A Visit from St. Nicolas' )

"The fair is what comes to the county in July. Life isn't fair."

-Mike Pence ( Quoting his father )

"A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes."

-Anonymous ( Often attributed to Mark Twain or Winston Churchill )

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."

-Viktor Emil Frankl

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

-John Stuart Mill

"Lord give me chastity and self control - but not yet."

-Saint Augustine of Hippo ( The Confessions of Saint Augustine )

"Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional!"

-Walt Disney

"You fall off the horse and you get back on."

-Bethany Hamilton

"Sheep spend their life worried about the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd."

-Anonymous

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

-Booker T. Washington

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

-Booker T. Washington

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

-Lin Yutang

"The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach."

-Ayn Rand

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

-Helen Keller

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

-Mahatma Gandhi

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

-Stephen William Hawking

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

-C.S. Lewis

"Posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."

-Franz Joseph Haydn ( Concerning W.A. Mozart )

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."

-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"You know you’ve grown up when a nap is no longer a punishment but a reward."

-Anonymous

"Liberty and peace are living things. In each generation - if they are to be maintained -they must be guarded and vitalized anew."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt ( Address on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, 1936 )

"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”"

-Emma Lazarus ( The New Colossus )

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

-Saint Augustine of Hippo

"Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent."

-Dennis Prager

"Through discipline comes freedom."

-Aristotle

"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid."

-George V. Higgins ( The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins )

"Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted."

-Rudyard Kipling

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

-Jim Elliott

"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

-Paul "Bear" Bryant

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

-J.K. Rowling ( Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling )

"Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."

-Rudyard Kipling

"I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music."

-Johann Sebastian Bach

"Always stand on principle even if you stand alone."

-John Adams

"Don't let potential be written on your tombstone"

-Anonymous

"Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’"

-Jesus Christ ( The Bible, ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭25‬:‭37‬-‭40‬ ‭NIV‬‬ )

"“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”"

-Ernest Hemingway ( The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway )

"A penny saved is ridiculous."

-Anonymous

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."

-John Stuart Mill ( On Liberty by John Stuart Mill )

"If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small."

-Azim Premji

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."

-Thomas Sowell ( Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell )

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You can't make old friends."

-Kenny Rogers ( From the song )

"Winning is easy. It’s how you lose that makes you real winners."

-Sam Breen ( Brokenwood Mysteries, Season 2 Episode 1 )

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."

-John F. Kennedy

"If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure."

-Madeleine L'Engle

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov ( Salvor Hardin, Foundation, by Isaac Asimov )

"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs."

-Thomas Sowell ( A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell )

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotes."

-Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill