Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me, and be my friend.

A man is his tallest when on his knees in prayer.

The man who rows the boat generally doesn't have time to rock it.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon the how our children grow up today. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves.
~ Margaret Mead ~

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other.
George Eliot

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

Seek not every quality in one individual.
Confucius

The more we examine ourselves, the less we criticize others.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

Youth fades, love drops, the leaves of friendship fall;
a mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Success is something like a duck, smooth and unruffled on top, but paddling furiously underneath!!

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate into eternity"

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Salvor Hardin (Isaac Asimov)

I expect to pass through this world but once;
any good thing, therefore, that I can do, let me do it now...
for I shall not pass this way again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be true to yourself, and don't let unfair criticism bother you -- you cannot cast a crooked shadow when you KNOW you're standing straight!

A man travels the world in search of what he is looking for and returns home to find it.

When the going is rough; rough it out.

Happiness is not in strength, or wealth, or power, or all three. It lies in ourselves.
Epictetus

If you cry over yesterday, and worry about tommorow, you won't have any room left to enjoy today.

Prayer is asking for rain; faith is carrying an umbrella.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

The quality of our lives is measured by how we deal with our problems.

Treat your friends as you do your paintings,and place them in the best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill

If a seed in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of Man become in its long journey to the stars?
G.K. Chesterton

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.
People grow old by deserting their ideals.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear;
as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

General Douglas MacArthur

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are;
be humbly what you aspire to be.
Thoreau

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one yet has harmend his stomach.
Unknown Author

Always do right. It will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

What lies behind us, and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

Say what you mean and mean what you say!

A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

Tough times never last; tough people do.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Of the lands afar, none have been so great as to the land we are standing on.

Embrace Life

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen nor touched,
but felt in the heart.

Helen Keller

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down....

Doing nothing in fear of making a mistake is the biggest mistake you will ever make.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that somebody may be looking.

Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the ability to act inspite of it.

Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words will scar me for life!