"Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly." - Solon

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." - Abigail Van Buren

"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." - Bertrand Russell

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." - Paul Fix

"There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others." - Tom Robbins

"When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing ... you are doing what you were meant to be doing." - Gary Zukav

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important." - Natalie Goldberg

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether." - Alfred North Whitehead

"It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me." - Keri Hulme

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever." - Alfred Tennyson

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." - H. L. Hunt

This is the day OUR FATHER has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in HIM! - Psalm 118:24

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." - D. H. Lawrence

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult." - Samuel Johnson

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." - Miss Piggy

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." - Dr. Seuss

"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one." - A. J. Liebling

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it." - Mother Teresa

"Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does." James Hilton

"Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves." - Robert Rodriguez

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours." - Monica Baldwin

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." - Leo J. Burke

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others." - Audrey Hepburn

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." - John Erskine

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." - Albert Einstein

"The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives." - Lois McMaster Bujold