My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ~Charles Kettering

Half of life is if. ~Unknown

When you believe a thing, believe it all over, implicitly and unquestioning. ~Walt Disney

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~J.M. Barrie

You get what you expect. ~Alvin Ailey

Some people come into our lives and quickly go... Some people move our souls to dance. They waken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom... Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. ~Unknown

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself. ~Ethel Barrymore

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light--not in one flamboyant hour, but in the leger of his daily work. ~Beryl Markham

When a man whose marriage was in trouble sought his advice, the Master said,"You must learn to listen to your wife." The man took the advice to heart and returned after a month to say that he had learned to listen to every word his wife was saying. Said the Master with a smile,"Now go home and listen to every word she isn't saying." ~Anthony De Mello

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. ~Unknown

It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail of sucess. ~John Mason

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.~Paul E. McGhee

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~Frank Tyger

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ~Robert Frost

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russell Baker

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure. ~Michael Levine

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent. ~Elie Wiesel

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul. ~Shneur Zalman

Honesty is something you can't wear out. ~Waylon Jennings

All our souls are written in our eyes. ~Edmond Rostand

Sometimes you have to grow farther apart to keep growing together. ~Unknown

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me,
I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day,
as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.
~Edgar A. Guest

When we are grown we'll smile and say we had no cares in childhoood's day- But we'll be wrong... 'Twill not be true. I've this much care... I care for you. ~Unknown

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach

A fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. ~Old Testament

For, dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true?
Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt
It will turn true again, for so it goes.
~Robert Frost

I believe because it is impossible. ~Tertullian

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ~Anatole France

Things do not change; we change. ~Thoreau

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ~Emerson

Character is what you are in the dark. ~Dwight L. Moody

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
~Longfellow

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. ~Lincoln

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ~Bernard Shaw

O Lord--if there is a Lord; save my soul--if I have a soul. Amen. ~Ernest Renan, Prayer of a Skeptic

If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung his bell,
What would you buy?
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.
~W.B. Yeats

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. ~Socrates (quoted by Cicero)

How bitter a thing it is to look in to happiness through another man's eyes! ~Shakespeare

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to comsume wealth without producing it. ~Bernard Shaw

I prithee send me back my heart,
Since I cannot have thine:
For if from thine thou wilt not part,
Why then shouldst thou have mine?
~Sir John Suckling

Heaven is not reached by a single bound.
But we build the ladder by which we rise.
~J.G. Holland

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. ~J.A. Froude

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. ~J.R. Lowell

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. ~Helen Keller

The anatomical juxtaposition of two obicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction. ~Dr. Henry Gibbons, Definition of a kiss

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not, that is true knowledge. ~Thoreau (quoting Confucius)

This is what I want.
This is what I seek.
This is what I long to do with all of my heart.
~St. Francis

A liar needs a good memory. ~Quintilian

This is the punishment of the liar: He is not believed even when he speaks the truth. ~Babylonian Talmud

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. ~O. Henry

In her first passion woman loves her lover; In all the others, all she loves is love. ~Byron

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
~Von Münch-Bellinghausen

There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy. ~Dante

...What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after... ~Ernest Hemingway

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb

For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. ~W.S. Ross

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war--as though the absence of war was the same as peace. ~Dorothy Thompson

There are three Johns: 1, the real John, known only to his Maker; 2, John;s ideal John, never the real one, and often very unlike him; 3, Thomas's ideal John, never the real John, nor John's John, but often very unlike either. ~O.W. Holmes

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~Stephen Grellet

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. ~Simon Cameron

For of all the sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been."
~Whittier

Have you heard of the terrible family They,
And the dreadful venomous things They say?
Why, half the gossip under the sun,
If you trace it back, you will find begun
In that wretched house of They.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I have to live with myself, and so
I want to be fit for myself to know;
I want to be able as days go by,
A;ways to look myself straight in the eye.
~Edgar Guest