When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

-John Ruskin

"**** is the place where one has ceased to hope."
--A. J. Cronin

"I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'"
--Tallulah Bankhead

"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory."
--Cicero

If you would judge someone's character, wait till they're dealing with hard times:

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved." --Helen Keller

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars." --Elbert Hubbard

"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man." --Felix Frankfurter

"The days that make us happy make us wise."
--John Masefield

"People fall forward to success."
--Mary Kay Ash

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them." --Thucydides

Live in THIS moment:

"All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of
some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
--Dale Carnegie

"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
--Harriet Martineau

"This is the day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it." --Psalms, 118:24

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
-Millard Fuller