My favourite quotes (updated 22 Feb 2012)

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.
- Tryon Edwards

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
- Martin Luther King

If you love what you do, then it is no longer work. The money you earn is secondary when you love your work.
-Catherine Pulsifer

I'll add more as I find them !