A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone.

It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

Source Unknown

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Vince Lombardi

A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

Piet Hein

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Robert Smithson

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

Rachel Stevens

Every man

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.

Source Unknown

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Amelia Barr

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence, is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.

Frank Close

There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what our Church teaches... We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us.

M. Russell Ballard

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

Frances Hodgson Burnett