America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire -- New Jersey's own, Bruce Springsteen.

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

Sarah Dessen

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Henry David Thoreau

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

Ted W. Engstrom

Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The purpose of my life is to try out the ideas I have for it.

Martin Firrell

It is easy to be brave from a distance.

American Indian Proverb, Omaha

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

Lee Haney

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Watchman Nee

Business is the salt of life.

Voltaire

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

Emmett Kelly