"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." - Jon Hammond

"When God takes something out of your reach, he is not punishing you but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence ... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'" - Aligier Loriato

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble." - Carl Jung

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love." - Margaret Atwood

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" - Fanny Brice

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong." - Baltasar Gracian

"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition." - Sir William Osler

"If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful." - Terri Guillemets

"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret." - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.'” - Matthew 19:14

"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner." - W. Somerset Maugham

"There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile." - Zig Ziglar

"Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first." - Anna Quindlen

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'" - Charles M. Schulz

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers

"If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened." - Dale Adams

"Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom." - Jim Rohn

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - George Herbert

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb

“God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.” - Reggie White

"If you see someone without a smile, give 'em yours!" - Dolly Parton

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." - George Horace Lorimer

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have." - Anonymous

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein

"You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

"A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other." - Anonymous

"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" - Jeremiah 29:11

"Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." - Jim Bishop