For July 2010

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots, the other is wings."
-- Hodding Carter, Jr.

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
-- Michael Jordan

"Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories."
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
-- Ronald Reagan

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road."
-- Dag Hammarskjold

"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet."
-- Tom Robbins

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."
-- Jessica Guidobono

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it."
-- Mark Twain

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
-- Dalai Lama

"My interest is in the future... because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there."
-- Charles Kettering

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
-- Albert Einstein

"If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?"
-- Geraldine Ferraro

"All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
-- Marvin Minsky

"If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."
-- Les Brown

"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks."
-- Charles Dickens

"If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction."
-- Martin Kornfeld

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free."
-- Catherine Ponder

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
-- Epictetus

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."
-- Chinese Proverb

"If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel."
-- Ann Landers

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
-- Raymond Chandler

"Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life."
-- Robertson Davies

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
-- John F. Kennedy

"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."
-- Dave Meurer

"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them."
-- Jim Rohn

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."
-- Irish Proverb

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
-- Albert Einstein

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
-- Tom Brokaw