There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

The family is a creation of God.  It is the basic creation.  The way to
strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.
President Gordon B. Hinckley

Pessimist--one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown
away.
Arthur Helps

The artists must be sacrificed to their art.  Like the bees, they must put
their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it.
What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.
Pat Auflick

True friendship comes when silence between two friends is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry

Imagination is only intelligence having fun.
George Scialabbe

Courage is acting in spite of fear.
Howard W. Hunter

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
C. C. Colton

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little
way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

It is important for us to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong
together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home, there are
fundamental aspects of our relationship which will never change.
President Spencer W. Kimball

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
Dick Armey

Those with true hope often see their personal circumstances shaken, like
kaleidoscopes, again and again.  Yet with the "eye of faith," they still see
divine pattern and purpose.
Neal A. Maxwell

Always remember there are certain people who set their watches by your
clock.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker (1554-1600) English Theologian

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
English Proverb

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therfore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor
makeshift.
William James

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

When two people think the same way about too many things, one of them isn't
doing much thinking.
Mark Twain

You cannot do wrong and feel right.  It is impossible!
President Ezra Taft Benson

The rulling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice)

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute.  But
let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour.
That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the
nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is
increased.
Heber J. Grant

We must never despair;
our situation has been compromising before,
and it has changed for the better;
so I trust it will again.
If difficulties arise,
we must put forth new exertion
and proportion our efforts
to the exigencies of the times.
George Washington

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless.
Mother Theresa

To stumbble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero

Learn what you are and be such.
Pindar

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

What hunger is in relation to food,
zest is in relation to life.
Bertrand Russell

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we
fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
Anonymous

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Friendship is welding iron to iron; it unites the human family with its
happy influence.
Joseph Smith

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to
the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.
Bishop Westcott

The aim of life is to live ... and to live means to be aware---joyously,
drunkenly, divinely, serenly aware.
Henry Miller

There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a
miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false
friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all in the same boat on a stormy sea and we owe each other a terrible
loyalty.
G.K. Chesterton

I am wealthy in my friends.
Shakespeare

The world breaks everyone and some of us are strong at the broken places.
Hemingway

Live each day as if it were your last because one of these days you'll be
right.
Leo Buscaglia

For us, there is only the trying.  The rest is not our business.
T.S. Eliot

Do not go gentle into that good night.  Rage, rage against the dying of the
light.
Dylan Thomas

I place my ladder where all ladders start
in the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
W.B. Yeats

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone.  It has to be made, like bread;
re-made all the time, made new.
Ursula K. LeGuin

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest
imaginable.
Mahatma Gandhi

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things
that lie buried in my heart.

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did
not know that it would be today.
Narihara

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

When we receive an impression in our heart, we can use our mind either to
rationalize it away or to accomplish it.
Richard G. Scott

We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with
a sleep.
Shakespeare (The Tempest)

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter
least.
Johann Friedrich von Goethe

Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
W.B. Yeates

I am afoot with my vision ... I tramp a perpetual Journey.

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through
work and struggle.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky