Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
-Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You (Peachtree Publishers)

Real love stories never have endings.
-Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever (Morrow)

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
-Luciano Pavarotti with William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story (Doubleday)

In order to maintain a well-balanced perspective, the person who has a dog to worship.him should also have a cat to ignore him.
Peterborough Examiner, Canada

Far away is far away only if you don't go there.
O Povo, Fortaleza, Brazil

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook

One disadvantage of having nothing to do is you can't stop and rest.
- Franklin P. Jones

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
- Norman Cousins

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
-Quoted by Rabbi Harold Kushner in an interview with Dennis Prager in Ultimate Issues

Words are as beautiful as wild horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.
-Ted Berkman in The Christian Science Monitor

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
-Abigail Van Buren, Universal Press Syndicate

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
-George Eastman

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
-Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
-Tim McCarver

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it's everything.
-Peggy Noonan in Catholic New York

A half truth is a whole lie.
-Yiddish proverb

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first,
-Job E.Hedges

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
-William Rotsler

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins-not through strength but by perseverance.
-H. Jackson Brown, A Father's Book of Wisdom

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
-Robert Brault

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
-Jack Penn

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
-George Will in Newsweek

It pays to know the enemy-not least because at some tune you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
-Margaret Thatcher, Downing Street Years

Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.
-Caroline Schoeder, quoted in Milwaukee Journal

We live by encouragement and die without it-slowly. sadly, angrily.
-Celeste Holm

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-Libbie Fudim