"A loving relationship gives us an inner wealth
that outlives the greatest of external pleasures."
L. Buscaglia

"People want riches;
they need fulfillment."
R. Conklin

"Things do not change; we change."
H. D. Thoreau

"The teacher who is indeed wise
does not bid you to enter
the house of his wisdom
but rather leads you
to the threshold of your mind."
K. Gibran

"A thousand words will not leave
so deep an impression as one deed."
H. Ibsen

"How many things
we held yesterday
as articles of faith
which today
we tell as fables."
M. de Montaigne

"An optimist may see a light
where there is none,
but why must a pessimist always
run to blow them out."
M. De Saint-Pierre

"One must learn not to just hope for a better world,
but to strive to make a better world happen."
M. Alibrando

"When idealism goes
into the trash
as junk mail,
we're finished."
R. Fulghum

"The world as it is needs
those who will love it
enough to change it,
with what they have,
where they are."
R. Fulghum

"If you are patient long enough,
some dreams come true
and fate will draft you."
R. Fulghum

"The writing should have a rhtyhm to it
so the reader feels he is actually
listening to the words."
G. Burns

"As you go through life,
the good things and
the bad things
have a way of balancing
themselves out."
G. Burns

"We need to get to know each other,
listen to each other and
improve our knowledge of the world around us."
Pope Francis I

"I wanted something more.
But I did not know what."
Pope Francis I

"I'm a scientist.  I'm an educator.
My goal is to get people thinking straight in the first place,
just get you to be curious about the natural world.
That's what I'm about." N. deGrasse Tyson

"The only true happiness comes from
squandering ourselves for a purpose."
W. Cooper

"How many things
we held yesterday
as articles of faith which
today we tell as fables."
M. de Montaigne

"Only by allowing ourselves to be vulnerable
do we stand a chance of succeeding in love."
L. Buscaglia

"It's not about anger - it's about peace.
It's not about power - it's about grace.
It's not about knowing your enemy -
it's about knowing yourself."
Monk With No Name: Bulletproof Monk

"Piety is not what the lessons bring to people,
it's the mistakes they bring to the lessons."
Jerome Bixby - The Man From Earth

"Bear with the faults of others
as you would have them
bear with yours."
Phillips Brooks

"Let us permit nature to have her way.
She understands her business better than we do."
M. de Montaigne

"I do not speak the minds of others
except to speak my own mind better."
M. de Montaigne

"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words!
His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
M. Twain

"Somebody once said if you live long enough,
sooner or later everything that can happen will happen."
G. Burns

"If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it."
Mother Teresa