"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will
vibrate in eternity."

-- Sean O'Casey

"One thing young people have to always keep in mind when
deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun?
Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?"

-- Bob Schieffer

"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The
greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that.
That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may
not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be
maximized."

-- Mike Ditka

"How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and
important in life? That's the individual question."

-- Ted Danson

"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job
and try to do the best you can, the money will come."

-- Lawrence Welk

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of
your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand:
the first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."

-- Audrey Hepburn

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough
problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you
had last year."

-- John Foster Dulles

"There are no such things as limits to growth, because there
are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence,
imagination, and wonder."

-- Ronald Reagan

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

-- Bertrand Russell

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a
could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be
a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-
have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."

-- Milton Berle

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

-- Dr. Seuss

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is
to produce more leaders, not more followers."

-- Ralph Nader

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I
could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got
to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had
learned in seven years."

-- Mark Twain

"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more
convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done
and not some future day or future year. It is today that we
fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is
the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes
the harvest and the playtime."

-- W.E.B. Du Bois

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"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope
that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could
say: I used everything you gave me."

-- Erma Bombeck

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about
learning how to dance in the rain."

-- Unknown

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base
and keep your foot on first."

-- Frederick B. Wilcox