"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."- Mark Twain

“There’s only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that’s being so good at what you do that they can’t ignore you.”

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!" - Winston Churchill

"Happy is the man who know what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present,and what to plan for the future." -A. Gibson

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light.I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." - Sarah Williams

We don't need anybody else to tell us what is real; inside each one of us is love, and we know how it feels.~ Paul McCartney

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.-- Jules de Gaultier

"...and if you walk to the end of the block, there sits a Starbucks. And directly across the street -- in the exact same building as that Starbucks -- there is... another Starbucks. There is a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks! And ladies and gentlemen, THAT is the end of the universe." - Lewis Black

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. -George Will

"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day"~anonymous~

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. -albert schweitzer

Life doesn't turn out as we expect it to. When we come out into the world, our future seems as smooth and unmarred as virgin snow. It is an illusion, of course, and soon we weave a web of mistakes and failures as much as achievements and triumphs, and become used to walking on broken pavements rather than on paths of gold. It is what makes life so interesting, one quickly learns that one never knows what is going to happen next. -elizabeth aston