"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
--Mark Twain
"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you
through life, choose a sense of humor."
--Jennifer Jones
"The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared
by everybody."
--J. C. F. von Schiller
"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that
failure is inevitable."
--Coco Chanel
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for
yourself."
--Doris Lessing
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
--Colette
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all."
--Pericles
"Each day provides its own gifts."
--Martial
"He that fears not the future may enjoy the present."
--Thomas Fuller
"If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present."
--James Petersen
"He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears."
--Michel de Montaigne
"It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis."
--Margaret Bonano
"The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today."
--Charles W. Eliot
"I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days."
--Kathleen Andrus
"Never explain -- your friends do not need it and you enemies won't believe you anyway."
--Elbert Hubbard
"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That it do singe yourself."
--William Shakespeare
"Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
--Anon.
"Nothing will content him who is not content with a little."
--Greek proverb
"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content'."
--Lauren Bacall
"True contentment . . . is getting out of any situation all that there is in it."
--G. K. Chesterton
"Time deals gently only with those who take it gently."
--Anatole France
"Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit."
--German proverb
"Who longest waits most surely wins."
--Helen Hunt Jackson
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do."
--Quintus Ennius
"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."
--Thomas Fuller
"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."
--Mario Cuomo
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
--Dr. Joyce Brothers
"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
--Dolly Parton
"No one is more likely to make a mistake than the man who acts only on reflection."
--Luc de Clapiers, Marquis Vauvenargues
