"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what
happens."

-- Andy Rooney

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I
don't think we're the same person all our lives."

-- Steven Spielberg

"Always tell the truth, not only because it is the decent
thing to do, but because it gives you such an advantage over
the man who is trying to remember his lies!"

-- Sam Brookes

"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."

-- John D. Rockefeller

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you
are."

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make
it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll
make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark
the present."

-- Joan Rivers

"Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as
possible."

-- Charles Dickens

"Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.
It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to
serve others by using them."

-- Thomas Kinkade

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you
believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you
think."

-- From A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh

 

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you
are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

 

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture
of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously.
Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the
picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

 

"I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of
whispering: I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is
off-balance here."

-- Oprah Winfrey

 

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful
lest you let other people spend it for you."

-- Carl Sandburg

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly
be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have
kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once
extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it
again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be
what you desire to appear."

-- Socrates

 

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time
have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been
Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human
efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always
seemed to me contemptible."

-- Albert Einstein

 

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to
beat him at politeness."

-- Josh Billings

 

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test
first, the lesson afterwards."

-- Vernon Sanders Law