"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine

"Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment." - Author Unknown

"Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It's all about timing." - Stacey Charter

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow." - Denis Waitley

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles DuBois

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

"First thing to do every morning is read or listen to something positive. Your mind is like a garden -- whatever you plant grows. Plant good stuff." - Alwyn Cosgrove

"The difference between what you were yesterday and what you will be tomorrow is what you do today." - Stephen Pierce

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Words have special powers. The power to create smiles or frowns. The power to generate laughs or tears. The power to lift up or put down. The power to motivate or de-motivate. The power to teach good or evil. The power to express love or hate. The power to give or take. The power to heal or harm. Choose your words carefully." - A.D. Williams

"Hope is wishing something would happen. Faith is believing something will happen. Courage is making something happen." - Unknown Author

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." - Robert Heinlein

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." - Segal's Law

"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." - John A. Wheeler

"Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk." - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men." - Captain J. A. Hadfield

"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question." - Stephen Jay Gould

"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

"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"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

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller

"The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it." - Sidney J. Harris

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." - James F. Byrnes

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for." - Dan Millman

"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." - Golda Meir

"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own." - Susan Sontag

"Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive." - Lois McMaster Bujold

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

"First things first, but not necessarily in that order." - Doctor Who