Well since I'm fairly new I decided to show you guys what I'm kinda sorta like by showing you the quotes I try to live by/like a lot:
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig
"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."
- Saint Thomas Moore
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty
"Facts are the enemy of truth."
- Don Quixote
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell (My favorite here)
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
- John D. Rockefeller
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin

And the one I follow the most said by my own gr. 7/8 french teacher
"The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary"
- Mme. V.