"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had
wonderful things happen to you."
-- Mary Tyler Moore

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is
generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."
--- Johannes A. Gaertner

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches"
ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
-- Herbert Kaufman

"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory
fails."
-- Unknown

"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success."
-- Alonzo Newton Benn

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
-- Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Writer

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person
doing it."
-- Chinese proverb

"Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
-- Bernard Williams (1929-) English Philosopher

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
~ Morrie Schwartz

"The problem...is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own."
~ Morrie Schwartz

"Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."
~ Morrie Schwartz

"Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock
of inertia."

-- Alexis Carrel