"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself." -- Louis L'Amour
"After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world." -- Pam Shaw
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." -- Judy Garland
"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better." --John Updike
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." -- Colin Powell
"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." -- Peter T. McIntyre
"Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will." -- Harvey MacKay
"Don't confuse having a career with having a life. They are not the same." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom." -- M. Scott Peck
"Even God cannot change the past" -- Agathon
"Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?" -- Robert D. Ballard
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again"-- F.P. Jones
"Half of our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save" -- Will Rogers
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder" -- M.C. Escher
"I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem" -- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein
"In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow." -- Jonathan Cainer
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else" --Erma Bombeck
"It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise." -- Nancy Thayer
"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it then move on." -- Bob Newhart
"Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it." -- Jeanne Marie Laskas
"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day" -- Elbert Hubbard
"Nothing levels a playing field like a better idea." -- Stanley I. Mason, Jr.
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries" -- A.A. Milne
"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back." --Thomas Sowell
"Silence is a text easy to misread." -- A. A. Attanasio
"Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not." -- Susan Spano
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." -- William James
"The family is the essential presence--the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you hvae to leave it." -- Bill Buford
"The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment." -- Ruth Brown
"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius." -- Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
"There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who think for themselves." -- Meg Greenfieled
"There's too much said for the sake of argument and too little said for the sake of agreement." -- Cullen Hightower
"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either." -- Golda Meir
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." -- Marilyn vos Savant
"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart." -- Phyllis Theroux
"Usefulness is not impaired by imperfections. You can drink from a chipped cup." -- Greta K. Nagel
"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." -- Harrison Ford
"We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them." -- Tsutomu Shimomura
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -- Sam Keen
"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens" -- Benjamin Disraeli
"What is a vision? It is a compelling image of an achievable future." -- Laura Berman Fortgang
"When we forgive, we free ourselves fro the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us." -- Claire Frazier-Yzaguirre
"You can tell a lot about a town from how it treat is visitors." -- Mary E. Potter
"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself" -- Galileo
"Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful." -- Marshall Ganz
