"He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger."
-- Japanese proverb

"Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul."
-- From an old English prayer

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You musn't lose it."
Robin Williams

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover
ability in others is the true test.
-- Elbert Hubbard

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I
can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"A picture of many colors proclaims images of many thoughts."
-- Donna A. Favors

"Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite
standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive
mightily toward that goal."
-- Harold E. Stassen

"Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life,
misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which
have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than
illustrious heroes."
-- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is
mighty, but action with faith is mightier."
-- Thomas Robert Gaines

"You really don't become what you want. You become what you believe."
—Oprah

"I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes
stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never
more brave than when we do that."
-- Linda Ellerbee (1944- ) American Journalist

"A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view."
-- Wilma Askinas (1926- ) American Author

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those
who can do nothing for them or to them."
-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on
walking."
-- Buddhist Proverb

"The shining spark of truth cometh forth only after the clash of
differing opinions."
~ Abdu'l-Baha (in writings of the Baha'i faith)

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in
our life, or in the life of another."
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues.
Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better
self, his real self that can dare and do and win out."
-- Eleanor Porter (1868-1920) American Novelist

"The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift."
-- Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) French Playwright

"From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the
individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is
what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to
resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side
street.
-- Mark Helprin, American Novelist and Writer

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek
out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the
hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through
it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never
walk alone.
-- Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am
thankful that thorns have roses."
-- Allophones Karr

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the
end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow"."
-- Anonymous

"To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you
leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing
unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is
one of the things that discipline - training - is about."
-- James Clavell, in his novel "Shogun"

"When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally
get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life
here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and
elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our
brief but intrinsic participation with it." (From her biography of
naturalist Eustace Conway.)
-- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
-- Anonymous

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down,
the other is pulling up."
-- Booker T. Washington