Some Quotes: (stolen from Brytness' webpage, http://www.angelfire.com/rock/brytness/)

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital.... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket." --Andrew Carnegie

"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any." –Plato (kind of comforting isn't?)

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." --Abigail Van Buren

"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." --Aristotle (384-322 BC)

"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself." --Anais Nin

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress." --Alfred A. Montapert

"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." Erich Fromm (1900-80)

"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." --Anna Freud

"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy." -- F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

"I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream." -- John A. Appleman

"Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength." --Eric Hoffer

"If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused." --Walter Mondale

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." -- Abraham Lincoln

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking." --C. H. Parkhurst

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime." --Mignon McLaughlin

"Emotion has taught mankind to reason." --Marquis de Vauvenargues

"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done." --Aldous Huxley

"Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized." --Francis R. Havergal

"What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable." --Louise Nevelson

"If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night." -- Dicky Barrett

"You win the victory when you yield to friends." –Sophocles

"Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past: / Live this day, a if 'twere they last." --Bishop Thomas Ken

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn." --Hippocrates

"The great thing, and the hard thing, is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery." --Janet Erskine Stuart

"The truth is more important than the facts." --Frank Lloyd Wright

"Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you." --Joey Adams

“Things may change—but they don’t pass. You can never go out of my life.” –Wharton

"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness." --Bernard de Fontenelle

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." --William R. Inge

"I have always been waiting for something better – sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me." --Dorothy Reed Mendenhall

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." --Benjamin Disraeli

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." --Aldous Huxley

"Boldness be my friend." --William Shakespeare (from Cymbeline)

"Speak when you're angry – and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." --Laurence Peter

"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers." --Walter Hagen

"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example." --Duc de La Rochefoucald

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." -- G.K. Chesterton

"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it." -- Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-60)

"When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed." -- I Ching (BC 1150)

"Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1." -- Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (b. 1943)

"It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.” -- A. A. Hodge

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?" -- Douglas Noel Adams

"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." --Madonna

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship." --Francis Marion Crawford

"A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all." --Evelyn Scott

". . . just to be alive is a grand thing." --Agatha Christie

"The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." --Bertrand Russell

"Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers." --Agnes Thornton

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” --Anon.

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be." --May Sarton

"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." -- Buddha (563?-483? BC)

"Deep faith eliminates fear." --Lech Walesa

"The work will teach you how to do it." --Estonian proverb

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." --William Feather

"If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things." -- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-86)

"Keep breathing." --Sophie Tucker

"Truth is what stands the test of experience." --Albert Einstein

"He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good." --Yiddish proverb

"Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans." --Anon.

"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten." --B. F. Skinner

"Keep your promises to yourself." --David H. Fink

"We are all dead men on leave." -Eugene Levine

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. " - Erasmus

"To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life "

--John Oliver Hobbes, "School for Saints "

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

"A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." --William Feather

That's all folks.