"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it."

L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942)

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomes Edison (1847-1931)

"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate."

George Burns (1896-1996)

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

Woody Allen (1935- )

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

"Our envy of others devours us most of all."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )

"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"You always pass failure on the way to success."

Mickey Rooney (1920- )

"Believe in something larger than yourself."

Barbara Bush (1925- )

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."

David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)

"The good die first."

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"It takes two to make peace."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace."

Geraldine Ferraro (1935- )

"Your only obligation in this life is to be true to yourself."

Richard Bach (1936- )

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

"Soul appears when we make room for it."

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important."

Janet Lane (1978- )

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven."

John Milton (1608-1674)

"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child."

Ron Wild (19?? - )

"If you don't run your own life, someone else will."

John Atkinson (19?? - )

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

"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 (1901 - 1978)

"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments."

Rose Kennedy (1890-1995)