Free Andre Maurois - The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Dalai Lama - If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

Robert Benchley - It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous.

Wilfred Peterson - Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new gri

Andre Maurois - Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Andre Gide - Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Madame de Stael - Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

El DeBarge - I'm too grateful to be hateful. I am too blessed to be stressed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Sydney J. Harris - A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Catherine Pulsifer - Daughters can sometimes be too serious, teach them to laugh and not take life too seriously.

S. Ajna - The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.

Barbara Kingsolver - Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

John Wooden - "All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low."

Andre Ward - Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.

Andre Gide - It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves

Andre Gide - “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

Napoleon Bonaparte - If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots