"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." - Robert McCloskey

"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done." - Cullen Hightower

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." - Margaret Fairless Barber

"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas

"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained." - Edward R. Murrow

"Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." - Evan Esar

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." - Thomas Jefferson

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy C. Fisher

"Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly." - James Rippe, M.D.

“You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.” - Maya Angelou

"We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them." - William Arthur Ward

"Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." - Gen Alfred Gray, USMC

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

"Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." - James Allen

"Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind." - Evan Esar

"Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more." - Darby Conley

"In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them." - Phil Donahue

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you." - Muhammad Ali

"Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path." - Scandinavian Proverb

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee." - Marcus Aurelius

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." - H. G. Wells

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them." - Francesco Guicciardini

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser

"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong -- or absolutely right." - Albert Guinon

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." - Peter Marshall

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." - Bernard Bailey

"Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." - Franklin P. Adams

"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back." - Thomas Sowell

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." - Noelie Altito

“Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.” - Dennis Prager

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." - Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pine

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." - Bill Vaughan

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God (Yehovah); and the peace of God (Yehovah), which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Yeshua ha-Mashiach)." - Philippians 4:6-7

"Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have." - Ernest Haskins

"Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right." - H.H. "Breaker" Morant

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." - Anthony Burgess

"A hug is like a boomerang -- you get it back right away." - Bil Keane

"A picture is a poem without words." - Horace

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth." - John 1:14

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine." - Henry S. Haskins

"Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth." - Souza

“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.” - Author Unknown

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." - Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” - Roy Croft

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love." - Leo Buscaglia

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can." - Og Mandino

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve

"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do." - Ethel Barrett

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action." - Napoleon Hill

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." - Alec Bourne

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." - From a headstone in Ireland

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." - Bruce Lee

"When you're trying to motivate yourself, appreciate the fact that you're even thinking about making a change. And as you move forward, allow yourself to be good enough." - Alice Domar

"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings." - Walt Disney

"The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit." - Jack Kornfield

"When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup." - Sam Lefkowitz

"God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine." - David Nicholas

"Focus on the present, and enhance your time and life now rather than always working toward tomorrow." - Dr. Laura Berman

"If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it." - Author Unknown

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything." - George Lois

"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing." - Louisa May Alcott

"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child." - Mary MacCracken

"Before you can learn a new way of doing things, you have to unlearn the old way. So beginnings depend on endings." - Rick Maurer

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes." - Henry David Thoreau

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'" - William A. Ward

"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow." - Edward Sandford Martin

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” - Mother Teresa

"You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle." - Steve Jobs

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way." - Marvin Minsky

"We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths ... and tell the world the glories of our journey." - John Hope Franklin

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." - Wilson Mizner

"A habit is something you can do without thinking ... which is why most of us have so many of them." - Frank A. Clark

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones." - Benjamin Franklin

"You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow." - Harriet Martineau

"Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan." - Tony Robbins

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalynn Carter

"If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't talk about it, but do it. After you have done it, your friends and enemies will talk about it." - George W. Blount

"I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget." - George W. Bush

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine." - John C. Maxwell

"Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end." - Author unknown

"Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect." - Kathryn L. Nelson

"Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill." - Jacob Braude

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." - Ralph Charell

"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week." - Alice Walker

"Laughter is a part of the human survival kit." - David Nathan

"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France

"Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given." - Deepak Chopra

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” - Isaac Newton