"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.” ~ Raymond Chandler via http://ping.fm/PXSXn

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

- Dale Carnegie

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
~ James Bryant Conant

"All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by rising above them."


- Charles Caleb Colton

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."


- Mahatma Gandhi

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
~ Leo Tolstoy

"Be yourself. The world worships an original."
- Ingrid Bergman

Enjoy your day-of-birth today.

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." ~ Buddha

"It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am."


- Elle Macpherson

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
- Josh Billings

"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."


- Buddha