"'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself." - Samuel Smiles
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial." - C.H. Spurgeon
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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations." - Jean Paul Richter
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"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good." - Ruth Benedict
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"The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government." - Reverend Peter Marshall, on being elected Chaplain of the U. S. Senate in January 1947
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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." - Thomas J. Watson
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"Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God." - Augustine
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"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino
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"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" - Ray Bradbury
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"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." - Jacob Braude
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"Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is." - Hugh Macleod
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"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality." - Bertrand Russell
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"You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy." - Lydia M. Child
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"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed." - Gordon Parks
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"Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest." - Colleen Wainwright
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"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." - Helen Keller
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." - Sydney J. Harris
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"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." - Orson Welles
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"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." - Sigmund Freud
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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." - Thomas Fuller
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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." - Thomas A. Edison
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"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." - George Carlin
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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation." - Cicero
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"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." - Dick Cavett
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"In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice." - George Matthew Adams
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