"With courage nothing is impossible."

-- William Hillary, founder of the RNLI

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations."

-- George Orwell

"If I were to try to read, much less answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"Nowhere on earth do people choose to do business with those they do not trust, do not like, or do not understand."

-- Thorpe's Law of International Business

"In a world where you can be anything, be yourself."

-- Etta Turner

"Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person’s life."

-- William Trevor

“What day is it?” asked Pooh
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favourite day,” said Pooh

-- AA Milne

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

-- Nelson Mandela

" How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

-- Anne Frank

" Life is a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile it returns the greeting."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

"Man is the measure of all things."

-- Protagoras

"Too much knowing is misery."

-- Lorenzo de Medici

"How beautiful youth is, that is always slipping away. Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so; of tomorrow there is no knowing."

-- Lorenzo de Medici

"Never wrestle with a pig.  You both get dirty and the pig likes it."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

-- Confucius