"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."

-- Thomas H. Huxley

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"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."

-- Mary Hemingway

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"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

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"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us."

-- Charles Caleb Colton

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"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

-- Mark Twain

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"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."

-- Ralph W. Sockman

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"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."

-- Michael Pritchard

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"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

-- Richard Feynman

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