"If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways"
- Daniel Quinn

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to
blame someone else."
-- John Burroughs

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence."
-- Helen Keller

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills

"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
-- Thomas A. Edison

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your
convictions."
-- William F. Scolavino

"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be
honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count,
to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at
all."
-- Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer

"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle."
-- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Polish Pianist

"To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred
obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities."
-- Grenville Kleiser

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost
all your money."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved with it as he who
helps to perpetuate it.  He who accepts evil without protesting against
it is really cooperating with it. "
~ Martin Luther King Jr.