"No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time -- in fact, the only time -- to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started." - Guy Finley

"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz

"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for." - Terry Lynn Taylor

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." - Mark Twain

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." - Jim Rohn

"Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence, Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!" - Pablo

"It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." - Kahlil Gibran

"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." - Unknown

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful." - Ann Landers

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Robert X. Cringely

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Those who are unwilling or incapable of discerning or judging between good and evil are in this manner revealing either their disobedience or their immaturity." - E. L. Bynum

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." - D. H. Lawrence

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business." - Michael J. Fox, quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'

"Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates." - Scott Westerfeld

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy." - Kalu Kalu

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities." - Eric Hoffer

"It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!" - Robert Kiyosaki

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Vernon Sanders Law

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."- Maya Angelou

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine." - Sir William Osler

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." - Sam Levenson

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy." - Ralph Ransom

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." - Fannie Lou Hamer

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Russell