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“They say the best explanation for the ‘good old days’ is a poor memory.”

“Of all the problems that plague the human race, at least in the west, financial problems are probably the easiest to solve. However, it never feels that way when we're dealing with them.”

“Only man (as far as we know) is capable of comprehending his own mortality and realizing that one day he will be no more. This sobering realization explains why we do many of the things we do and choose to believe many of the things we do.”

“All things supernatural, and especially religion were created by man primarily to deal with uncertainty and the fear of death.”

“One of if not the greatest achievement of mankind is language. While other primates communicate, no other species has the highly complex and nuanced language of humans. This has enabled us to retain and pass on enormous amount of knowledge to our descendants and thus over time knowledge accumulates and future generations can build upon what was bequeathed to them.”

“A difficulty raiseth the spirits of a great man.” George Savile

“Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great."

Cherilyn "Cher" Sarkisian

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

R. G. Ingersoll

“A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down.”

William James

“A man must make his opportunity as oft as he finds it.”

Francis Bacon

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.”

Thomas Edison

“Growth is the only evidence of life. A lack of growth or movement indicates death.”

“For whatever we do ought to be in harmony with this: No man can set in order the details unless he has already set before himself the chief purpose of his life…The reason we make mistakes is because we consider the parts of life but never life as a whole.”

Seneca

"The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment."

Wm. A. Ward

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

L. P. Hartley

“That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.”

John Stuart Mill

“Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret, and life a beautiful success.”

Louisa May Alcott

“The surest way to justify one’s evil is to portray oneself as a victim.”

“You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late.”

R. W. Emerson