| Old Indian Saying | When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cried and you rejoice. |
| Marie Edith Beynon | We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand. . . and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. |
| Thomas Carlyle | The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. |
| Jerry Fleishman | A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, and the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul. |
| Victor Cherbuliez | Half the joy of life is in the little things taken on the run. Let us run if we must--even the sands do that--but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | We can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results. |
| Helen Keller | I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility. |
| Shantidasa | When you worry about the problems of tomorrow, you are creating unhappiness for yourself today. |
| William Shakespeare | When Love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. |
| Kahlil Gibran | We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. |
| Woodrow T. Wilson | We are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand. |
| Ken Keyes, Jr. | We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have - and not worrying about what we don't have. |
| Claybion F. Cloud, Birthday Toast | Happiness being a dessert so sweet May life give you more than you can ever eat. |
| K. Hender, Birthday Toast | May all your joys be pure joys, and all your pain champagne. |
| Andy Goodrich, Birthday Toast | The test of Gold is Fire, The test of Truth is Time, The test of God's love are the heavens above and everything sublime. Treasures in life are many, dreams realized but few, But I know the test of God's goodness is when he gave me a friend like you. |
| Joyce Coyne Babonis, Birthday Toast | A toast to your coffin. May it be made of 100 year old oak. And may we plant the tree together, tomorrow. |
| Dennis Hendricks, Birthday Toast | May friendship, like wine, improve as time advances. And may we always have old wine, old friends, and young cares. |
| Irish Proverb | Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man, and after that, praying. |
| Oscar Wilde | Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. |
| Indian wisdom | The smile that you send out, returns to you. |
| Joseph P. Kennedy, 1936 | I have no political ambitions for myself or my children. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. |
| Llewelyn Powers | To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy... is the true aim and end to life. |
| George Sand | There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. |
| Bruce Lee | I have come to discover through earnest personal experience and dedicated learning that ultimately the greatest help is self-help; that there is no other help but self-help -- doing one's best, dedicating oneself wholeheartedly to a given task, which happens to have no end but is an on-going process. |
| Eldridge Cleaver | You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. |
| Edmund Burke | Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little. |
| Michael Jordan | You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. |
| Beverly Sills | You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. |
| George MacDonald | To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. |
| Georgia O'Keefe | Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. |
| Henri Nouwen | I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others. |
| Benjamin Franklin | All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. |
| Albert Schweitzer | Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. |
| Anonymous | Some days are better when viewed upside down. |
| Max Depree | We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are. |
| Leland Kaiser | Visionary is a self-fulfilling prophet. Don't predict the future. Create it. |
| Confucius | I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability. |
| Source Unknown | If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either. |
| Elbert Hubbard | It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. |
| Margaret Thatcher | People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. |
| Patty Hansen | You create your opportunities by asking for them. |
| Henry Van Dyke | Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. |
| Epictetus | It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. |
| Eden Phillpotts | We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks. |
| Thomas A. Edison | I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. |
| Ben Johnson | There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. |
| Claudius | Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. |