Abbey, Edward (1927-1989)
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

Adams, George Matthew
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts."

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Adler, Morris
"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be."

Alcott, Louisa May (1833-1888)
"Far away there in the sky are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead."

Alda, Alan
"Be brave enough to live creatively. You have to leave the city of your comfort, go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can get there only by hard work, by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself."

Anderson, Marian
"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."

Anon
"Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends -- tell me where to get more wax!!"

"Today's dream is the threshold of tomorrow's discovery."

Arab Proverb
"Quand tu as trois sous achete un sou de pain et deux sous de jasmin."
[When you have three pennies buy one penny's worth of bread and two pennies worth of jasmine]

Alwater, Lee
"There is nothing more important in life than human beings, nothing sweeter than the human touch."

Bacall, Lauren
"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."

Bach, Richard
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

Bailey, Pearl (1918-1990)
"People see God everyday. They just don't recognize Him."

Balfour, Francis Maitland (1851-1882)
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."

Ball, Lucille (1911-1989)
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

Beecher, Henry Ward (1800-1878)
"Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."

Benchley, Robert Charles (1889-1945)
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."

Benny, Jack (1894-1974)
"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)
"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

Berra, Yogi (1925- )
"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else."

Bibesco, Elizabeth Asquith
"I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. It is only a question of loving them enough."

Bible, I Corinthians 13:7
"There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and its endurance."

Bombeck, Erma (1927-1996)
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."

Bradbury, Ray (1920- )
"You can't try to do things -- you simply must do them."

Brice, Fanny (1891-1951)
"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

Brodsky, Joseph (1940-1996)
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Burns, George (1896-1996)
"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age."

Buscaglia, Leo (1924-1998)
"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)
"We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them."

Camus, Albert
"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger."

Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."

Carnegie, Dale (1888-1955)
"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)
"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

Chanel, Coco (1883-1971)
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but (instead) someone."

Cher
[to Barbara Walters: her greatest fear] "That I won't live my life as well as I know it could be lived, that I'll be stupid and not have guts and integrity. That I'll make choices that are safe."

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange."

"The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost."

Christie, Dame Agatha (1890-1976)
"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."

Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965)
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"85% of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well."

Cook, Barbara
"If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence."

Confucius (bce 551-479)
"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."

cummings, e.e. (1894-1961)
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."