"I never expect to lose. Even when I am the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. " -H. Jackson Browne
"The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves" -William Penn
"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line." -H. L. Mencken
"You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life." -Les Brown
"Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge." -Dante Alighieri
"Power is the ability to do good things for others." -Brooke Astor
"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture." -Aldous Huxley
"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places." -Mark Twain
"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." -George Bernard Shaw
"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." -Jane Austen