"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis."

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."

"The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence."

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions."

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."

"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."

"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."

"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."

"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."

"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."

"Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back"

"It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning."

"How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment."

"Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself."

"Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it."

"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."

"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride"

"Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure."

"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."

"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."

"Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect."

"Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality."

"It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail."

"What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end."

"The best thing in life aren't things."

"What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money."

"The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle."

"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating."

"They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame."