A friend is a person who knows all about you but likes you anyway.

A survey asked "Who are the happiest people?" These were the four winning answers:
A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done.
A child building sand castles.
A mother bathing her baby.
A doctor who has finished a difficult operation and saved a life.
You'll note that money, power and possessions play no part in any of the answers.

He who goes out of his house in search of happiness runs after a shadow.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy?

It is my observation that too many of us are spending money we haven't earned to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

To be bitter is to waste precious moments of a life that's too short already.

There's no limit to what you can achieve if you don't mind who gets the credit.

Only God is in a position to look down on anyone.

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.

No one is guaranteed happiness. Life just gives each person time and space. It's up to us to fill it with joy.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

Job security is being worth more than you're getting paid.

Criticism never built a house, wrote a play, composed a song, painted a picture, or improved a marriage.

Maturity is when you have two choices and you choose the one that gets you home earlier.

The next time someone hurts you and your first response is to hurt them back, remember, the person who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

Almost all of our unhappiness is the result of comparing ourselves to others.

Humor: Sign above clock in office "This clock will never be stolen, too many employees are watching It."

Everyday we are given stones. But what do we build? Is it a bridge or is it a wall?

You wouldn't be worried about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they actually do.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

If someone remembers your suit and not your smile, you didn't smile enough.

The surest way to make yourself happy is to make someone else happy.

Be smarter than other people-just don't tell them so.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."