As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

T. Starr King

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

St. Francis of Assisi

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous.

Margot Fonteyn

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner
 

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut