"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain
nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice
being brave."

-- Mary Tyler Moore

 

"Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing
from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary
letters along the way."

-- Douglas Pagels, Author

 

"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same
time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends
all barriers."

-- Ed Sullivan

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

-- Theodor Seuss Geisel

 

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who
waved off the dessert cart."

-- Erma Bombeck

 

"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to
walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an
education in itself."

-- Carol Burnett

 

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under
trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water,
or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a
waste of time."

-- J. Lubbock

 

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two
characters. One represents danger and the other represents
opportunity."

-- John F. Kennedy

 

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because
he could do only a little."

-- Edmund Burke

 

"Nature arms each person with some faculty which enables them
to do easily some feat impossible to any other."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"It takes at least a couple of decades to realize that you
were well taught. All true education is a delayed-action bomb
assembled in the classroom for explosion at a later date. An
educational fuse of 50 years long is by no means unusual."

-- Kenneth D. Gangel

 

"It takes at least a couple of decades to realize that you
were well taught. All true education is a delayed-action bomb
assembled in the classroom for explosion at a later date. An
educational fuse of 50 years long is by no means unusual."

-- Kenneth D. Gangel

"You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race."

-- David Bowie

 

"Be different, stand out, and work your butt off."

-- Reba McEntire

 

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who
will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give
you a stock clerk."

-- J.C. Penney

 

"If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be
like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second.
If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on
Mars. We'd both be unique."

-- Mark Spitz

 

"If I spent as much time doing the things I worry about
getting done as I do worrying about doing them, I wouldn't
have anything to worry about."

-- Beryl Pfizer

 

"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do
the same thing; only at different times."

-- Baltasar Gracian

 

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only
fly by embracing one another."

-- Lucretius