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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon

If you accept your limitations, you go beyond them. Brendan Francis Behan

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. Abraham Maslow

No one wants advice - only corroboration. John Steinbeck

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move. Benjamin Franklin

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry David Thoreau

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. Edwin Louis Cole

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Henri Frederic Amiel

The perfect is the enemy of good. Voltaire

Nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all. Arthur Balfour

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. William Bruce Cameron

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. Thomas Merton

Be sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I'm not happy. But I'm not unhappy about it. Alan Bennett

Adventure is just bad planning. Roald Amundsen

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson

There are just two rules for success: 1. Never tell all you know. Roger H. Lincoln

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron. George Carlin

Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands. Joseph Parker

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, paraphrasing Chesterton

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Anon

No pressure, no diamonds. Mary Case

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. Malcolm Forbes

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't. George Bernard Shaw

I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty per cent of the people who hear them don't care ant the other twenty per cent are glad you're having trouble. Tommy Lasorda

Never tell your problems to anyone. 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. Lou Holtz

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathise are really looking for the particulars. Edgard Watson Rowe

Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell

A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are for. John A. Shedd

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Oliver Cromwell