A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

Sammy Hagar

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Mark Twain

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Jose Marti

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Denis Waitley

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Toni Cade Bambara

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

Warren Bennis

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Louis Nizer

Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.

Holtei

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Mao Zedong

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Tara Brach

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Yann Martel