"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."

Alice Walker (1944 - )

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content."

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

“There is no education like adversity.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)

"The things you own end up owning you."

Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )

"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)

"The best way out is always through."

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."

William James (1842 - 1910)

"Man is what he believes."

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

"Security is a kind of death."

Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)

"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."

Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.:

Gotama Buddha (circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE)

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)