Editor's picks

“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”

— John Burroughs

“If you think you can do it, you can.”

— John Burroughs

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

— John Burroughs

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”

— Charles Bukowski

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

— Charles Bukowski

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Words are all we have.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

— James Barrie

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

— James Barrie

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

— Amelia Barr

“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”

— James Baldwin

“Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.”

— James Baldwin

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

— James Baldwin

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.”

— Mary Kay Ash

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”

— Barbara de Angelis

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”

— Barbara de Angelis

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”

— James Allen

“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.”

— James Allen

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”

— James Allen

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”

— James Allen

“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”

— Dante Alighieri

“The secret of getting things done is to act!”

— Dante Alighieri

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

— Joseph Addison

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

— Joseph Addison