It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Life swings like a pendulum back and forth between pain and boredom.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Do your duty and a little more, and the future will take care of itself.

-- Andrew Carnegie

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Each of us carries a heaven-sent mission; living joyfully in pursuit of that calling is the first requirement of a well-lived life.

-- Shibusawa Eiichi

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.

-- Jack Dorsey