"Nothing in the world can take the

place of persistence...Persistence and

determination alone are omnipotent."
- Calvin Coolidge

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make
our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

- Tom Head

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
- Plato

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.- mae west

The greatest things ever done on Earth

have been done little by little."
- William Jennings Bryan

"I long to accomplish a great and noble

task, but it is my chief duty to
accomplish small tasks as if
they were great and noble."
- Helen Keller

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry
up.

Pearl S. Buck

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.  ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy
of Despair

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which
the soul may fix its intellectual eye.  ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.  ~Betty Smith

Your heart is a sun -

Joy its stars,
Faith a moon, shining in your darkness...
~Terri Guillemetsss

Fear is the mother of morality.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck
"You have achieved success if you
have lived well, laughed often
and loved much."

All that was all that will be