Thoughts 29FEB2012

Great hopes make great men - Thomas Fuller

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much - Oscar Wilde

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable - Robert Fripp

Give light and people will find the way - Ella Baker

Thoughts 28FEB2012

If there is no struggle, there is no progress - Frederick Douglass

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are - Bertolt Brecht

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time - Dean Acheson

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude - Maya Angelou

Thoughts 27FEB2012

Believe you can and you're halfway there - Theodore Roosevelt

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same - Elbert Hubbard

A friend to all is a friend to none - Aristotle

Change your thoughts and you change your world - Norman Vincent Peale

Thoughts 20FEB2012

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages - Terry Pratchett

Man is a genius when he is dreaming - Akira Kurosawa

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star I grab a handful of clouds - Mike Tyson

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams - Madonna Ciccone

Thoughts 17FEB2012

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone - Ronald Reagan

You change your life by changing your heart - Max Lucado

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; merely determine where you start - Nido Qubein

With self-discipline most anything is possible - Theodore Roosevelt

Thoughts 16FEB2012

Beauty is not caused. It is - Emily Dickinson

---

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you - Adlai E Stevenson

---

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her - Agatha Christie

---

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears - Anne Roiphe

Thoughts 13FEB2012

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength - Betty Friedan

---

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young - Henry Ford

---

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough - Don Marquis

---

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter - Mark Twain

Thoughts 10FEB2012

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves - Zen Proverb

---

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving - Michael Johnson

---

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor - Norman Vincent Peale

Thoughts 09FEB2012

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us - Hubert Humphrey, U.S. Vice President, Senator

---

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing - Abraham Lincoln

---

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs - Larry Scherwitz

Thoughts 08FEB2012

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success - Gerry Spence

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man - George Bernard Shaw

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all - Anna Quindlen

Thoughts 03FEB2012

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces - Traditional Proverb
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any man’s power nor an easy matter - Aristotle
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace - Mother Teresa

Thoughts 02FEB2012

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will; To love or not; in this we stand or fall - John Milton
Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny - Charles Reade
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain - Helen Keller

Thoughts 01FEB2012

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul - David O McKay
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again - Michael Johnson
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion - Michael Johnson