"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be." - Leo Buscaglia

"Every day holds the possibility of a miracle." - Elizabeth David

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." - Jack Kerouac

"One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer." - G. E. Lessing

"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done." - Ernie Kovacs

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker

"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient." - Eugene S. Wilson

"No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are." - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds." - Theodore Roosevelt

"God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart." - Izaak Walton

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." - Denis Waitley

"We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are." - Arianna Huffington

"Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older." - Randy Pausch

"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself." - Sophy Burnham

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." - Carl Rogers

"If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it." - John Mayer

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson

"When a person becomes crystal clear as to exactly what they want to accomplish, and focuses their time and energy on this one goal, any person can move mountains." - Jimmy Sweeney

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." - Stephen R. Covey

"Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave." - David Mahoney