A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

Source Unknown

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children; even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Brian W. Aldiss

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Ernest Renan

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

Bear Grylls

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

William Butler Yeats

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

Drew Bledsoe

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

William Robertson Smith

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

Source Unknown

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Wil Wheaton

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth