"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."

Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."

Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)

"There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'"

Lee Iacocca (1924 - )

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."

Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death."

Lyman Beecher (1775 - 1863)

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."

Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

Maya Angelou (1928 - )

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.:

George Washington (1732 - 1799)

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

David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

J. K. Rowling (1965- )

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."

Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)