Epictetus
“Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
“To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They’d rather take their clothes off.”
George Burns
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
Captain J. A. Hadfield
“This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.”
H. L. Hunt
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
Caleb Carr
“So if it seems that some of what I’ll have to say in the pages to come doesn’t reflect the mellowing of age, that’s only because I’ve never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.”
David H. Comins
“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.”
