"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?" - Author Unknown
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"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices -- today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." - Kevyn Aucoin
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"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes." - Thomas Carlyle
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"If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter." - Jack Fyock
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Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." - Paul Goodman
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"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." - Harold Geneen
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"It's not that everything will be easy or exactly as you had expected, but you must just choose to be grateful for all that you have, and happy that you got a chance to live this life, no matter how it turns out." - Author Unknown
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"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world." - Jack Layton
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"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back." - Maya Angelou
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." - Edmund Everett Hale
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"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid
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"History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity." - James A. Forude
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"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader
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"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
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"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket." - Sylvia Plath
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"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." - Pierre Beaumarchais
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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level." - Bertrand Russell
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"May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility." - Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
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"Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." - Harry S Truman
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"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money." - Joey Bishop
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"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble." - Agatha Christie
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"When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking." - Michael Patrick King
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"He who loses money loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all." - Henry H. Haskins
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"Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you." - John De Paola
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"A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
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"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances." - Jay Leno
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"Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else." - Robertson Davies
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"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it." - Samuel Johnson
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