Editor's picks

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

— Dolly Parton

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

— Dolly Parton

“If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.”

— Dolly Parton

“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.”

— John Stuart Mill

“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”

— John Stuart Mill

“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”

— John Stuart Mill

“It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.”

— Horace Mann

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”

— Henry Miller

“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”

— Henry Miller

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”

— Henry Miller

“The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.”

— Barack Obama

“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”

— Groucho Marx

“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”

— Groucho Marx

“Genius is eternal patience.”

— Michelangelo

“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”

— Michelangelo

“Love is all you need.”

— Paul McCartney

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“We are what we believe we are.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”

— William James

“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”

— William James

“It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”

— Mick Jagger

“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”

— Mick Jagger

“I can't get no satisfaction.”

— Mick Jagger

“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”

— Jim Morrison

“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”

— Jimi Hendrix