Don’t get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily. -- Charles R. Swindoll
A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't. -- Jack Dempsey
Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives. -- Jesse Herman Holmes
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. -- Betty Smith
"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again." -- Flavia Weedn, American artist
Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal. -- Harold E. Stassen
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." -- Frank Herbert, American author
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.
-- Thomas Robert Gaines
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. -- Friedrich Nietzsche