While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

No one ever excused his way to success.

Dave Del Dotto

Flowers are the earth laughing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.

Eliot Spitzer

In life, the way we perceive life and reality is often instrumental in how things can unfold.

Vanna Bonta

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.

Paul Scherer

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.

Jean Houston

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Thomas Fuller

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Liz Carpenter