"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - TR

"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." - TR

"Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness." - Mark Twain

"Everything popular is wrong."  - Oscar Wilde

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." TR

"A harmful truth is better than a usefull lie." - Thomas Mann

"A man is not where he lives, but where he loves." - LP

"Take it easy -- but take it." - Woody Guthrie

"Live your own life, for you will die your own death." - LP

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau

"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself. If all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying." - Simone de Beauvoir