"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family." - Joseph Brodsky

"One faces the future with one's past." - Pearl S. Buck

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to." - Pauline Phillips

"We pass through this world but once." - Stephen Jay Gould

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time." - Jean Paul

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'." - Henry Moore

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." - Georg C. Lichtenberg

"To be is to do." - Immanuel Kant

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman

"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon

"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered." - John Updike

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine." - Flip Wilson

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." - George Burns

"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people." - Alexis Carrel

"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough." - Garrison Keillor

"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed." - Nicolas Chamfort