Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.