Here are some quotes from famous or somewhat famous people. They came from the following site: http://www.quoteland.com/topic.asp

 1.          "Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 2.          "England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
-George Bernard Shaw, "Reader's Digest", November, 1942

 3.       "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me."
-Dudley Field Malone

 4.       He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
-Aesop

 5.       "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
-Helen Keller

 6.       You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
-Ziggy

 7.       "Every exit is an entry somewhere."
-Tom Stoppard

 8.       "I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
-Milton Berle

 9.          Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
-B. F. Skinner

 10.     "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

 11.     "There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

 12.     "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
-Michel de Montaigne

 13.     "People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
-Gilbert K. Chesterton