I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it
Gale Sayers

"Life's about friendships, the way you love your partner, the way you care for your children. That is what life is about. Not anything about earning a hundred zillion dollars because you toured America more than anyone else.
I want life to be about creativity
Joe Strummer, former lead singer for the Clash rock

"Four Rules For Life; Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results." -
Angeles Arrien

"Anyone who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
Charles Darwin

"We can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal
from J.F.K's remarks Commencement Address at American University, June 10,1963

"The greatest truths are the simplest and so are the greatest men
Augustus and Julius Hare
Note: Sent by Robert Clay,

"Habits cannot be changed by throwing them out the window, they have to be coaxed down the stairs, one step at a time
Note: First introduced to me by Neil Cantor, however the original source and saying is as follows
Habit is habit, not to be thrown out anyone, but rather coaxed down the stairs a step at a time" Mark Twain

"You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we
shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support
any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success
of liberty."
John F. Kennedy

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference

Robert Frost

"Of course the best way to keep flies from entering your mouth is to keep it closed
Daniel Boone
Note: Submitted by my brother Eric

When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible...
We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world Free to choose our ends, and our new beginnings
That is when, and only when...
We come to it
Maya Angelou, from her poem, 'A Brave And Startling Truth'

"2. Begin with the end in mind
Stephen Covey
Note: One of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (# 2 )

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made
in the small ones." ---Phillips Brooks
Note: Sent by Peggy Sall Texas

"It is older age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time"
Simone De Beauvoir

"Failure is the path of least persistence "

"Treat a person as they are, They will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be."
Goethe

"Let today presage all of my tomorrow's."
Neil J. Cantor

" What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. "
Simone De Beauvoir