The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -Dorothy Nevill
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. -John Charles Salak
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." -Nathaniel Hawthorne
First the man takes a drink. Then the drink takes a drink. Then the drink takes the man. -Japanese proverb
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. -G.C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain, U.S. Author(1835-1910)
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. -Sydney J. Harris
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.-Platov
Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.-- Kobi Yamada
Faith goes up the stairs that love builds and looks out windows which hope has opened. -- C.H. Spurgeon
A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you've forgotten the words.
A good friend stabs you in the front.-- Oscar Wilde
If you want to be successful, be like a duck. Above the surface be calm and serene, but below the surface, paddle like HELL!!
True courage is not the absence of fear; rather it is the taking of action in spite of the fear.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference".-- Robert Frost
"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they're not; it helps them to keep trying."--Merry Browne
In the hospital they told us that pain is something you experience and then put behind you. I disagree, I think you hold everything, pain and pleasure, in your heart, and that memory only deepens the next experience.
Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'--Robert Kennedy
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. -Carl W. Buechner
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Drive-thru banking was invented so cars could meet their true owners. -Ron Picavet
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. -Robert Pirsig
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.-- Frank Herbert, Dune
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced... Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. --Cherokee Proverb
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. -Abigail Van Buren
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed. -Booker T. Washington
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine. -Longfellow (1819-1892)
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. -Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Always remember, You are a somebody. God didn't take the time to create a nobody."