Power is the ability to do good things for others – Brooke Astor.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits – Casey Stengel.
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple – C Ceram.
Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks, and courage – Charles Luckman.
We [...]

The most decisive actions of our life are most often unconsidered actions – Andre Gide.
Well done is better than well said – Benjamin Franklin.
There are no gains without pains – Benjamin Franklin.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail – Charles F. Kettering.
You must do the things you think you cannot do – [...]

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes – Abigail Van Buren.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted – Aeschylus.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it – Agatha Christie.
I shall tell you a great secret my [...]

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! – Alice James.
All would live long, but none would be old – Benjamin Franklin.
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese – Billie Burke.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle – Bob Hope.
Growing [...]

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy – Benjamin Franklin.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide – Bertrand Russell.
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction – Bob Marley.
Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life’s problems – Dan Castellaneta.
I drink only to make my friends [...]

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves – Abraham Lincoln.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair – Arnold Toynbee.
America, for me, has been the pursuit and [...]

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools – Albert Einstein.
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen – Alexandre Dumas.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret – Ambrose Bierce.
The world needs anger. [...]

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified – Aesop.
I’m sorry you are wiser, I’m sorry you are taller; I liked you better foolish and I liked you better smaller – Aline Murray Kilmer.
New York: the only city where people make radio requests like “This is for Tina – I’m sorry I stabbed [...]

Art is… a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what’s happening – Aaron Howard.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in – Amy Lowell.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less [...]

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing – Abraham Lincoln.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character – Albert Einstein.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles – Alex Karras.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine – [...]

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower – Albert Camus.
October is a symphony of permanence and change – Bonaro W. Overstreet.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn – Chalres Hare.
Autumn Into earth’s lap does throw Brown apples gay in a [...]

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race – Barbara Christine Seifert.
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on – Carl Sandburg.
A crying baby is the best form of birth control – Carole Tabron.
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last – Charles [...]

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up – Bill Vaughn.
You don’t play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball – Bobby Knight.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not – Charles Barkley.
This is the second most [...]

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time – Albert Camus.
Beauty and folly are generally companions – Baltasar Gracian.
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about [...]

Absent in body, but present in spirit.
For the fashion of this world passeth away.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
When I was a child I spake as a child.
For now we see through a glass, darkly.
The first man is of the earth, earthy.
There is no fear [...]

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed” was the ninth beatitude – Alexander Pope.
Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting – Bernard Meltzer.
Reflect on your present blessings of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which [...]

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all – Alfred Lord Tennyson.
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing – Byron Nelson.
Friends will keep you sane, love could fill your heart. A lover can warm your bed, but lonely is the soul Without [...]

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life – Antisthenes.
There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother – Astrid Alauda.
After a girl is grown, her little brothers – now her protectors – seem like big brothers – Astrid Alauda.
The [...]

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates – Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to [...]

A promise must never be broken – Alexander Hamilton.
Promise a lot and give even more – Anthony J. D’Angelo.
There’s no abiding success without commitment – Anthony Robbins.
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies – Benjamin Franklin.
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved – Bill Gates.
To [...]