"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the
paint on it you can."

-- Danny Kaye

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose
a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can.
But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."

-- Mary Hemingway

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like
shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

-- Phyllis Diller

"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have
anything to laugh at when you're old."

-- Edgar Watson Howe

"There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen."

-- Jim Lovell

"We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but
never stop reaching heavenward."

-- Everett Mamor

"Let's not push it under the rug, or push it to the side
because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You
know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet,
it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep
coming up."

-- Herschel Walker

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because
you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is
up to you."

-- Richard Bach

"Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know
what's more than enough."

-- Billie Holiday

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious
gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled
sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the
roughest weather."

-- Washington Irving

"A man has to work so hard so that something of his
personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only
to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days."

-- Albert Einstein

"Colors are the smiles of nature."

-- Leigh Hunt

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

-- Salvador Dali

"Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message.
The information it has about our life can be remarkably
specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We
would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be
more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's
message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away."

-- Peter McWilliams

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

-- Robert Frost

"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should
never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us
to see our own way more clearly."

-- Brendan Francis

"Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts
to sing while it is still dark."