Quotes

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind. -Mark Twain

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life. -Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. -Albert Einstein

To live is so startling it leaves time for little else. -Emily Dickinson

CAST OF CHARACTERS

I Can't is a quitter,
I Don't Know is lazy,
I Wish I Could is a wisher,
I Might is waking up,
I Will Try is on his feet,
I Can is on his way,
I Will is at work,
I Did is now the boss.
-Earl Cassel

Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great. -Mark Twain

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. -Oscar Wilde

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
-Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist

The gods help them that help themselves.
-Aesop, Greek writer (from “Hercules and the Waggoner,” Aesop’s Fables)

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
-Aristotle, Greek philosopher

It is a great mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not as the same time truly virtuous. -Benjamin Franklin

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. - Mahatma Gandhi


You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mahatma Gandhi

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. - Vincent Van Gogh

We are members of one great body, planted by nature in a mutual love, and fitted for a social life. - We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole. - Seneca

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