"Change before you have to."
--Jack Welch

"Choose the life that is most useful,
and habit will make it the most agreeable."
--Francis Bacon

"A community is like a ship; everyone
ought to be prepared to take the helm."
--Henrik Ibsen

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
--Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"When one door closes another door opens; but we
so often look so long and so regretfully upon the
closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
--Alexander Graham Bell

"I live in that solitude which is painful in
youth, but delicious in the years of maturity".
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"If people are good only because they fear
punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot, indeed."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Imagination encircles the world."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"We can't solve problems by using the same
kind of thinking we used when we created them."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Few are those who see with their own eyes,
and feel with their own hearts."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The whole of science is nothing more
than a refinement of everyday thinking."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)