"The excellence is in the details"
Sullivan, Gregory L

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for"
Epicurus

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it,
no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense."
-Buddha (536 B.C.-483 B.C

"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves"
Horace Mann

"Man dreams of Fame, while woman wakes to Love. "
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth…is potentially to have everything"
Joan Didion

"Friends are the family we choose for ourselves"
"To have a friend you must first be a friend
I am not sure of the original author(s) of these sayings but both were introduced to me by Neil Cantor

"Do not fear greatness. Some men are born with greatness, some men achieve greatness, and some men have greatness thrust upon them."
--- William Shakespeare

"It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me.Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)

the way I see it,you can either run from it,
or learn from it.
Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish." J. R. R. Tolkien

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." Calvin Coolidge

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know. '(from 'Ode on a Grecian Urn') John Keats (1795-1821)

"The pen, expressing the soul's passion, is mightier than the sword because the imagination can change the life of a people at their very roots." Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. "Alexander Graham Bell

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does --- except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." Abigail Van Buren

Hundreds of the world's top performers and more than 1 million fans united for 10 free concerts across the globe aimed at fighting African povertyIn Philadelphia, on the Independence Day weekend, actor Will Smith called the festivities a worldwide "declaration of interdependence." Today we hold this truth to be self-evident: We are all in this together," Smith said. Beamed around the world by satellite, he led the audience in snapping their fingers every three seconds, signifying the child death rate in Africa.
TFTD on this July 4th weekend appropriately expands our GREAT NATION'S statement of independence and freedom to others

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love -- the first fluttering of its silken wings -- the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to destroy.? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passers by see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way"
Vincent Van Gogh
Sent in memory of Luthor Vandross