John F. Kennedy: And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Ronald Reagan: Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.
Mao Zedong: Politics is war carried out without bloodshed, while war is politics carried out with bloodshed.
John F. Kennedy: Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Georges Pompidou: A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Jimmy Carter: America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Woodrow Wilson: I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
Francis Bacon: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.
Baruch Spinoza: Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.
Bernard Baruch: Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Benjamin Disraeli: Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.
Leonardo da Vinci: Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Havelock Ellis: Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Alfred North Whitehead: The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Jefferson Davis: Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
W. Somerset Maugham: At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Phillips Brooks: Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Cyril Connolly: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
G. K. Chesterton: There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Helen Rowland: To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.
Peter De Vries: The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
William Shakespeare: O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
John Churton Collins: Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
Mark Twain: It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Amy Carmichael: You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Mason Cooley: Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.: You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Gene Mauch: I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Herb Kelleher: Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.
Kevin Costner: When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
Walter Winchell: Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
The mind is a terrible thing to waste.