It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)