'It pays to know the enemy–not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.'

'The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.'

'A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.'

'Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.'

'Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.'

'The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.'

'The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.'

'Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.'

'Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.'

'At every moment, we always have a choice, even if it feels as if we don't. Sometimes that choice may simply be to think a more positive thought.'

'It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.'

'It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.'

'If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.'

'To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.'

'I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.'

'Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.'

'One man can make a difference and every man should try.'

A quote from Sally Ride

'Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.'

'Trust is one of the greatest economic forces on earth' - Charlie Munger

'Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.'

'I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.'

1975: Betty Ford, remarks at the International Women's Year Conference

'Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.'

Winston Churchill said he was comforted by Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' and its characters' calmness during World War II.

Writer Christopher Hitchens on why Orwell matters

Polish chemist and physicist Marie Curie (1867–1934) on learning

'No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.'

'There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.'

Doctor Dolittle and Tarzan inspired Jane Goodall's future work with animals in Africa, but her ideal reading experience included rereading 'The Lord of the Rings.'

'Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.'

'No one has ever become poor by giving.'

A quote from sports journalist Stuart Scott

'Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.'

A quote by broadcast legend Walter Cronkite

'A word after a word after a word is power.'

'Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.'

'Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.'

'Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.'

British Prime Minister Churchill’s speeches rallied the nation

'When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.'

'Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.'

'How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.' - Anne Frank

'All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.'

'I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.'

'In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.'

'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.'

'My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.'

'Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.'

A Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

See the list of alleged communists Orwell gave to the British government