"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." - Madeleine L'Engle
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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash
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"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition." - Sir William Osler
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"Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them." - Matthias
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"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship." - Colette
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"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home." - David Frost

"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves." - Larry McMurtry
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"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition." - Alexander Hodge
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"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot
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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts." - Clare Booth Luce
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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." - Jerome K. Jerome
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"I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile." - Robert A. Ward
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"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" - Irv Kupcinet
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"Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God." - Author Unknown
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"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." - Judith Martin
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"It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation." - Dr. Rob Gilbert
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself." - Samuel Johnson
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"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever." - Philip Adams
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Sir Winston Churchill
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it." - Roald Dahl
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle
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"A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink." - John Heywood
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"We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out." - Theodore Roosevelt
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"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt." - Graham Greene
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious." - Og Mandino
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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford
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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree." Charles Baudelaire
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"And then the moon, like to a silver bow, New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night, Of our solemnities." - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." - John Ruskin
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"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." - Grace Murray Hopper
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"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." - Laurence J. Peter
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"I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting." - Marta Gottfried
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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"September tries its best to have us forget summer." - Bern Williams
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"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." - Laurens Van der Post
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"Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." - Robert Fulghum
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"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence." - Carl Sandburg
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"If you think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, start taking better care of your own yard." - Sydney Rogers
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"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions." - Jim Rohn
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"Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew." - Dan Millman
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"Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence." - Lemuel K Washburn
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"If you're sitting on a fence, it's the perfect perch to watch life pass you by." - John Morgan, Grasshopper Notes
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"If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence." - James Wood
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"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help." - Alex Haley
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"Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next." - Ben Carson
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"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man." - Johnny Cash
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"Don't compromise. Once you know the Truth about something you are empowered and commanded to follow it. Now whether you choose to or not reveals who you have truly made Master of your life." - Terri Short Hill
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"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese Proverb
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"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." - Aneurin Bevan
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"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive." - Robert Frost
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
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"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen, My Speech to the Graduates
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"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess." - Heinrich Heine
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"Swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable." - William Shakespeare
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Jules Renard
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"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." - Anton Chekhov
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"If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough." - Edward Everett Hale
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Benjamin Franklin
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"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." - Adelle Davis
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"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently." - Ernest Hemingway
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"The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity." - Boris Pasternak
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"Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure." - Jennifer Hudson
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"You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day." - Ali Vincent
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"We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health." - Jennifer Hudson
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"May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself." - Adelle Davis
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"Pain (any pain - emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away." - Peter McWilliams
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"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?" - Philip G. Hamerton
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." - Moliere
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"If you’re going through hell, keep going!" - Winston Churchill
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"The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today." - James Carville
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"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." - Jerome K. Jerome
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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
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"Of all the people on the planet, you talk to yourself more than anyone. Make sure you are saying the right things." - Martin Rooney
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"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan
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"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance." - Laurence J. Peter
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted." - Charles Chaplin
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"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." - Aristotle
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"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall; In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed, For heaven approves of each generous deed." - John Dickinson, The Liberty Song, 1768
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"Wish not so much to live long as to live well." - Benjamin Franklin
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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." - Elbert Hubbard
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." - Thomas Jefferson
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." - Henry Fielding
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." - Aleister Crowley
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"For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news." - Gloria Borger
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"Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories." - Brigham Young
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"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh." - Robert Cecil
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli
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"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes." - Napoleon Bonaparte
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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." - Edward R. Murrow
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"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
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