Quotes and Videos 

Speaker at event 

Videos

Spring 2006 BSU Mainstreet Video:
(Adobe Flash Player, 2:00 minutes)

Quotes

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him. He must regard himself as greater than he is. –John Wolfgang von Goethe

Deadlines are the mothers of invention. –John Shanahan

Nothing arouses ambition so much …as the trumpet clang of another’s fame. –Baltasar Gracion

No profit grows where is no pleasure taken, in brief, sir, study what you most affect...

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. –Oswald Spengler

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. –Juvenal

During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. –Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. –Marcel Proust

There is only one success…to be able to spend your life in your own way. –Christopher Morley

You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. –Titus Maccius Plautus

Everything bows to success, even grammar. –Victor Hugo

Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for. –Ruth Boorstin

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. –Sandra Carey

It’s the good girls who keep the diaries, the bad girls never have time. –Tallulah Bankhead

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. –Rebecca West

Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man. –Erica Jong

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. –Maureen Murphy

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. –Mignon McLaughlin

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all the things to get himself envied. –Mark Twain

He who laughs. Lasts... –Mary Pettibone Poole

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense... - Gertrude Stein

The wise person questions himself, the fool others... –Henri Arnold

Unfortunately, sometimes people don’t hear you until you scream... –Stefanie Powers

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification. –Helen Rowland

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