01FEB07: "It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear." - Edward Henry Harriman

31JAN07: "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Dr. Joyce Brothers

26JAN07: "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength." - A. J. Cronin

25JAN07: "We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge

23JAN07: "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." - Edgar Watson Howe

22JAN07: "Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality." - Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens

21JAN07: "I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it." - Abraham Lincoln

20JAN07: "Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it." - Madeleine L'Engle

19JAN07: "The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, the second is disastrous." - Margot Fonteyn

18JAN07: "Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." - Lady Bird Johnson

17JAN07: "The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on." - Julia Alvarez

16JAN07: "Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." - Judy Garland

15JAN07: "Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez

14JAN07: "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind." - Henry James

12JAN07: "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be." - Groucho Marx

11JAN07: "It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act." - Charles Caleb Colton

09JAN07: "Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." - Baltasar Gracián y Morales

05JAN07: "I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." - Sara Teasdale

04JAN07: "A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day." - Albert Schweitzer

28DEC06: "No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." - George Jean Nathan

22DEC06: "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself." - Alexandre Dumas

20DEC06: "Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence." - Lin Yutang

11DEC06: "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." - e. e. cummings

10DEC06: "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller

06DEC06: "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

05DEC06: "None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

04DEC06: "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh

02DEC06: "Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it!" - Joseph Conrad

01DEC06: "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." - Ursula K. Le Guin

30NOV06: "Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'" - Maya Angelou

29NOV06: "In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes." - John Ruskin

28NOV06: "None will improve your lot if you yourself do not." - Bertolt Brecht

27NOV06: "One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud

24NOV06: "There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us." - Margaret Mitchell

23NOV06: "Ruin and recovering are both from within." - Epictetus

22NOV06: "No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains." - Louis Brandeis

30OCT06: "What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers." - Matina Horner

27OCT06: "Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing." - Socrates

26OCT06: "There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Stark

25OCT06: "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote

24OCT06: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

23OCT06: "To play it safe is not to play." - Robert Altman

22OCT06: "I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing." - Rabbi Hillel

21OCT06: "We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." - Mary Catherine Bateson

20OCT06: "We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it." - William Butler Yeats

19OCT06: "It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." - Queen Christina

18OCT06: "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." - Norman Cousins

17OCT06: "Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." - Plutarch

16OCT06: "Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy." - Pyotr Tchaikovsky

14OCT06: "Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." - Josh Billings

12OCT06: "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman

11OCT06: "Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble." - Admiral William Halsey

10OCT06: "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg." - C. S. Lewis

09OCT06: "I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso

08OCT06: "It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act." - Charles Caleb Colton

07OCT06: "Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball." - Billie Jean King

06OCT06: "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself." - Alexandre Dumas

05OCT06: "Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be." - Raymond Charles Barker

04OCT06: "Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence." - Lin Yutang

03OCT06: "When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." - Tuli Kupferberg

02OCT06: "To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time." - Katharine Hepburn

29SEP06: "Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same." - Lois McMaster Bujold

27SEP06: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

26SEP06: "Courage is the human virtue that counts most - courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have." - Robert Frost

25SEP06: "It is wisdom to believe the heart." - George Santayana

24SEP06: "What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence." - Samuel Johnson

23SEP06: "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." - Elanor Roosevelt

22SEP06: "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." - Dag Hammarskjold

21SEP06: "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." - Mahatma Gandhi

20SEP06: "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion." - Abraham Lincoln

19SEP06: "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao-Tzu

18SEP06: "I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed." - Etty Hillesum

14SEP06: "Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." - Jacob Braude

13SEP06: "Laughter is the closest distance between two people." - Victor Borge

12SEP06: "To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." - Oscar Wilde

11SEP06: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

10SEP06: "Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald

09SEP06: "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." - Mark Twain

08SEP06: "I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." - Hermann Hesse

07SEP06: "A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project." - Abigail Van Buren

06SEP06: "All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande

05SEP06: "Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by." - Carl Sandburg

04SEP06: "I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time." Herbert Bayard Swope

30AUG06: "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." - Anna Quindlen

29AUG06: "Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing." - George Sheehan

28AUG06: "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

25AUG06: "The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning." - Gail Godwin

24AUG06: "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm

23AUG06: "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France

22AUG06: "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant

21AUG06: "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." - Winston Churchill

18AUG06: "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright

10AUG06: "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers

09AUG06: "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

04AUG06: "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

03AUG06: "We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies." - Etty Hillesum

02AUG06: "Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more." - Louis L'Amour

01AUG06: "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung

31JUL06: "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." - Helen Keller

30JUL06: "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

29JUL06: "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." - Samuel Johnson

28JUL06: "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretsky

27JUL06: "It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be." - Anatole France

26JUL06: "Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything." - Gwendolyn Brooks

25JUL06: "Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid

24JUL06: "All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience." - Henry Miller

23JUL06: "A mistake is simply another way of doing things." - Katharine Graham

22JUL06: "Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them." - Elbert Hubbard

21JUL06: "We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt." - William Ernest Hocking

20JUL06: "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." - Grace Murray Hopper

19JUL06: "Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." - Ruth Gordon

18JUL06: "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas A. Edison

17JUL06: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

16JUL06: "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli

15JUL06: "Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." - From Baltasar Gracin y Morales

14JUL06: "Security is a superstition--it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller

13JUL06: "Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses." - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

12JUL06: "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill

10JUL06: "Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away." - Dag Hammarskjold

09JUL06: "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Mohandas Gandhi

08JUL06: "Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it." - T.S. Eliot

07JUL06: "It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Eliot

06JUL06: "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

05JUL06: "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart

04JUL06: "We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other." - Luciano Decrescenzo

03JUL06: "Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever." - Margaret Cho

02JUL06: "Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar." - Erica Jong

01JUL06: "Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash

30JUN06: "Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." - Helen Keller

29JUN06: "The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on." - Julia Alvarez

28JUN06: "Do not fear mistakes, there are none." - Miles Davis

27JUN06: "Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?" - Confucius

26JUN06: "It may be those who do most, dream most." - Stephen Leacock

25JUN06: "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Russell

24JUN06: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

23JUN06: "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John Ruskin

22JUN06 "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear." - Mark Twain

21JUN06: "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." - Orison Swett Marden

20JUN06: "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." - Henry Miller

19JUN06: "I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: Turn back, turn back; you'll die if you venture too far." - Erica Jong

18JUN06: "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." - Henry David Thoreau

17JUN06: "To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions." - William James

16JUN06: "We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." - Abraham Lincoln

15JUN06: "Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

14JUN06: "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette aka Colette

13JUN06: "When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't." - Thomas Edison

12JUN06: "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot

09JUN06: "Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." - Isak Denison

08JUN06: "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling

07JUN06: "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Beverly Sills

06JUN06: "He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." - Friedrich Nietzsche

05JUN06: "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi

03JUN06: "If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again." - Flavia Weedn

02JUN06: "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." - Frank Herbert

01JUN06: "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is." - Aleksei Peshkov

31MAY06: "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." -Alexander Graham Bell

29MAY06; "Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule." -Samuel Butler

25MAY06: "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." - Vincent Lombardi

24MAY06: "We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world." - James William Fulbright

23MAY06: "Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise." - Thomas J. Watson

22MAY06: "Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

18MAY06: "Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle." James Russell Lowell

17MAY06: "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein

16MAY06: "We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived." - Paul Bourget"

28APR06: "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." - Joseph Addison

18APR06: "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." - Booker T. Washington

17APR06: "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." - William Connor Magee

15APR06: "I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten

06APR06 "I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow." - Julia Cameron

04APR06 "When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." - Peter Marshall

03APR06 "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

31MAR "You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." - Mahatma Gandhi

30MAR "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself." - Erich Fromm

29MAR "Do not be too timid and squeamish. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

28MAR "Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead." – Louisa May Alcott