"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not..." - Calvin Coolidge

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

"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certai..." - William Lloyd Garrison

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." - William Hazlitt

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." - Christopher Columbus

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"To err is human; to forgive, divine." - Alexander Pope

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard M. Nixon

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch

"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America." - James Joyce

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." - Henry Kissinger

"But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?" - Amelia Barr

"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools." - George Chapman

"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life." - Tennessee Williams

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it." - Lucy Larcom

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striv..." - Pope Paul VI

"Rare is the union of beauty and purity." - Juvenal

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca