"If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance." Gil Atkinson

"You have two ears and one mouth. Remember to use them in more or less that proportion." Paula Bern

"Where all thinking is the same, there is very little thinking." Confucious

"Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whether you think you can or not you're right." Henry Ford

"Remember to always say what you mean. If you love someone, tell them. Don't be afraid to express yourself. Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you. Because when you decide it is the right time it might be too late. Seize the day. Never have regrets." Anna E. Forsman

"I'm not confused, I'm just well-mixed." Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on." Robert Frost

"It takes less mental effort to condemn than to think." Emma Goldman

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." Abbie Hoffman

"Who are those who will eventually be damned? Oh, the others, the others, the others!" Elbert Hubbard

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." Japanese proverb

"History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them." Helen Keller

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

"It is easier to believe than to doubt." Everett Dean Martin

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect." Margaret Mitchell

"Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open." George Jean Nathan

"It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story." Native American proverb

"Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold on them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt." Reinhold Niebuhr

"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself." Louis Nizer

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there is a light shining nearby." Ruth E. Renkel

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Kill a man, one is a murderer; kill a million, a conqueror; kill them all, a God." Jean Rostand

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." Bertrand Arthur William Russell

"Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." Carl Sandburg

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." George Bernard Shaw

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." Hippolyte Taine

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Teresa

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." Mark Twain

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed." Mark Twain

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." Voltaire (popular English translation)

"A man can’t be too careful in his choice of enemies." Oscar Wilde