-- Anonymous

 -- Charlie Chaplin

-- Charles Dickens

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

-- Agatha Christie

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

-- Booker T. Washington

He who can does, he who cannot teaches.

-- George Bernard Shaw

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

-- Herbert Bayard Swope

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

-- Martin Luther King

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

-- Oscar Wilde

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

-- Victor Hugo

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

-- William Shakespeare

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes... Keep hope alive.

-- Jesse Jackson

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

- Jacques Delille, 1738-1813.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, ... 'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

- William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863.

Truth has no special time of its own.  Its hour is now - always.

 -Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.  

-Wilson Mizner, 1876-1933.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.  

-Quintus Ennius, 239-169  B.C. 

Real friends are those who upon watching you make a fool of yourself do not feel that the job was done permanently.

-- Anonymous

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

-Sextus Aurelius Propertius, 54 B.C. - A.D. 2.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

-Benedict Spinoza, 1632-1677.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

-- Fran Lebowitz

If we see light at the end of the tunnel,

It's the light of the oncoming train.

--Robert Lowell

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

-- W.C. Fields

Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.

-- Libbie Fudim

The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.

-- Anonymous

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

-- George Chapman, 1559-1634, from All Fools

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

-- Mark Twain

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and discover they were the big things.

-- Anonymous

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.

-- Benjamin Franklin