"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo F. Buscaglia

"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open." - Elmer G. Letterman

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." - Henry Winkler

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power." - Washington Irving

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." - W. T. Purkiser

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." - Julia Sorel

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." - American Indian Proverb

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together." - Yo-Yo Ma

"Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day." - Sanskrit Proverb

"Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life." - Billy Mills

"Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty." - Robert Frost

"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves." - Salma Hayek

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Og Mandino

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." - Brian Adams

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." - Jimmy Carter

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." - Norman Vincent Peale

"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted." - Og Mandino

"Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living." - Mary Tyler Moore

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there." - Eric Hoffer

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge

"We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it." - Michel de Montaigne

"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be." - Joseph Campbell"

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Socrates