A winning smile makes winners of us all.

A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only, It might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

John Piper

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

Natan Sharansky

The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

Anthony Lewis

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice--though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles.Mend my life!each voice cried.But you didn't stop.You knew what you had to do,though the wind priedwith its stiff fingersat the very foundations,though their melancholywas terrible.It was already lateenough, and a wild night,and the road full of fallenbranches and stones.But little by little,as you left their voices behind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do--determined to savethe only life you could save.(copyrighted material)

Mary Oliver, The Journey

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Harold Geneen Ceo

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. Ecclesiastes 10:19

Bible

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

Shimon Peres

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

Virgil