"Nature, time and patience are three great physicians."

-- H.G. Bohn

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are
given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for
circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in
acting, to live."

-- Omar Bradley

"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give
unasked."

-- Kahil Gibran

"Good, better, best. Never rest until good be better and
better best."

-- Mother Goose rhyme

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they
are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on
in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they
make them."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and
then doesn't hurt."

-- Lucy Van Pelt

"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make
for our children."

-- Sitting Bull

"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for
yourself."

-- Doris Lessing

"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."

-- Helen Keller

The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only
treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only
wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which
you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.

-- J. A. Langford

"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything."

-- Win Borden

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds --- all they have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have."

-- Edward Everett Hale

"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as
ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate
others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others
when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive
ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready
to sacrifice ourselves."

-- Eric Hoffer

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the
little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind
look or heartfelt compliment."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it
is the representative of a whole eternity."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged
children for signs of improvement."

-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to
say and then don't say it."

-- Sam Levenson

"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you.
And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath
followed by another."

-- Oprah Winfrey

"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the
heat."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the
opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of
yesterday."

-- Brian Tracy

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are
immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

-- Arabian Proverb

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been
discovered."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is
the true measure of our thanksgiving."

-- W. T. Purkiser

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order
that they should see twice as much as they say."

-- Charles Caleb Colton

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can
be made in a very narrow field."

-- Niels Bohr

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not
to do the next time."

-- Anthony J. D'Angelo