-I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
Anwar el-Sadat

-I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas

-Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert W. Sarnoff

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland

-Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart

-Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
George McDonald

-The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles DuBois

-People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Baker

-There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine

-What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Stanley Kunitz