<p>As I have no idea of what the prompt is going to be, I was wondering if anybody had some quotes from people who are generally well regarded or enjoy high popularity (founding fathers, Einstein, JFK, etc) that can apply to a wide variety of circumstances. </p>
<p>Browse through this for ideas: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 18th Edition. “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett’s, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its eighteenth edition, published in 2012.” — <a href=“Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett’s_Familiar_Quotations</a></p>