The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. anonymous

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. Italian proverb

Fear in its various guises is at the bottom of procrastination. Edwin C. Bliss

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has—or ever will have—something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression. Fred Rogers

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton

A scholar knows no boredom. Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. Barbara Sher

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Dee Hock, Founder of Visa

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. Chinese Proverb

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it. Blood of the Martyr

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. Margaret Drabble

He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny

The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the pains to train the mind to think. Why do so many men never amount to anything? Because they don't think. Thomas Edison

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. --Mary Webb (The Spring of Joy)