"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Marianne Williamson

"The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone." - Karen Salmansohn

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." - Charles A. Dana

"Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world." - Ann Patchett

"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." - Narcotics Anonymous

"Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened." - Stanley Walker

"Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself." - A. H. Weiler

"As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless." - Rodney Yee

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford

"Sometimes it is the quiet observer who see the most." - Kathryn L. Nelson

"Never judge a book by its movie." - J. W. Eagan

"The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible." - Karen Salmansohn

"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy." - Izaak Walton

"It's the little things you do that make the big things happen." - Mike Dooley

"Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished." - Leslie Nielsen

"Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television." - David Letterman

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal

"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." G. K. Chesterton

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement." - Colby Dorr Dam

"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." - Leo Rosenberg

"The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?" - Gordon B. Hinckley

"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive." - John Sladek

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet." - Rodney Dangerfield

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." - G. K. Chesterton

"Listen to your inner voice for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you. Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will open before you." - Caroline Joy Adams

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together." - Jane O'Reilly

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - G.K. Chesterton

"The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides." - Audrey Hepburn