The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Lord Byron
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune, to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian
More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.
Dave Barry
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Orison Swett Marden
The pursuit even of the best things ought to be calm and tranquil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau
