On Managing Insomnia
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
— Dale Carnegie
Learning Takes Effort
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
— Abigail Adams
On Rest and Relaxation
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
— Bertrand Russell
On Giving Advice
… advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise….
— J.R.R. Tolkien
On Personal Change
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
— James Gordon, M.D.
On Forgiveness
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
— Mahatma Ghandi
On Silence
It is better either to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
— Pythagoras
On Beauty
I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
— Jean Kerr
On Prejudice
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.
— Edward R. Murrow