"I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions."

"People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems."

"When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives."

"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."

"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."

"There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe."

"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."

"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers."

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."

"Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice"

"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."

"If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world."

"If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world."

"Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard."

"I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?"

"…the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard…"

"One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them."

"There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior."

"It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference."

"By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension."

"The doors of the world are open to dose who can read."

"The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter."

"Action makes more fortune than caution"

"Give help rather than advice."

"Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice."

"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."

"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."

"We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves."

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

"Those who can bear all can dare all."

"Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD."

"He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city” (RSV)."

"Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with"

"To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help."

"If you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read. And"

"When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?"

"This is what we’re going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got."

"No knowledge is ever wasted."

"No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD."

"While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise."

"There is no freedom without bravery."

"If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now."

"Close the wounds, and the 22-hour surgical ordeal was over. The Siamese"

"Because if you don’t accept excuses, pretty soon people stop giving them, and they start looking for solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success."

"There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true; Then give the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you. Madeline Bridges"

"Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready."

"The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others."