"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have." - Thomas A. Edison

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?" - Peter McWilliam

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." - Frank Tyger

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." - Phillips Brooks

"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind." - Carl Hiaasen

"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm." - William Cowper

"When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth." - Neale Donald Walsch

"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." - Elvis Presley

"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance." - Charles Lindbergh

"Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you." - Aaron Douglas Trimble

"He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD." - Proverbs 18:22

"A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers." - African Proverb

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside." - Stephen Covey

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." - James Gordon, M.D.

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." - Mary Hemingway

"For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude." - Clarence E. Hodges

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." - Frieda Norris

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." - Hannah Whitall Smith

"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." - Rita Mae Brown

"To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it." - Josh Jenkins

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children." - Alex Haley

"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise." - William Congreve

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men." - Captain J. A. Hadfield

"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." - David H. Comins

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change." - Barbara de Angelis

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." - Napoleon Hill

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." - Spanish Proverb

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." - H. T. Leslie

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." - Chuck Palahniuk