"Though we travel the world over looking for the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up."

Jesse Jackson (1941- )

"One word frees us of all of the weight and pain of life: that word is LOVE."

Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

Benjamin Spock (1903 - 1998)

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"

Joe Namath (1943- )

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

"Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.
If you can dream it, you can make it so."

Belva Davis (1932- )

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."

Michael J. Fox (1961 - )

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

"If you rest, you rust."

Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."

Ken Keyes, Jr. (1921-1995)

"We are the choices we make."

Meryl Streep (1949- )

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

Jack London (1876 - 1916)

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."

John Churton Collins (1848-1908)

"I was not afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure."

Anne Baxter (1923-1985)

"All dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."

Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."

Alice Walker (1944- )

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

"Nothing is worse than active ignorance."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

"There are tones of voices that mean more than words."

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus