On Life

If A = success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut.
--Albert Einstein

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
--Katharine Hepburn

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
--George Eliot

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
--Benjamin Franklin

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
--Jimi Hendrix

Do, or do not. There is no "try."
--Yoda ("The Empire Strikes Back")

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
--Mahatma Gandhi

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
--George Santayana

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
--Anonymous

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
--William Goldman

Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.
--Anonymous

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as being heard.
--William Hazlitt

It is better to be boldy decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
--Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Great wealth makes us neither more wise nor more healthy.
--Anonymous

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
--Charles Dederich

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
--Albert Szent-Gydorgyi

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
--Francis Bacon

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
--Oscar Wilde

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you got.
--Janis Joplin

To go wrong in one's own way is better to go right in someone else's.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
--George Bernard Shaw

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

--Oscar Wilde

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

--W.C. Fields

Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.

--Janis Joplin

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