A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. — Thomas Paine

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. — William Morris

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. — Linda Ellerbee

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. … Continue reading →

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. — Victor Hugo

I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you. — Robin Williams

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. — Leonardo da Vinci

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. — Ayn Rand

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle

Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. — Ayn Rand

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason. — Ayn Rand