“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity: a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”

“God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.” J. Barrie

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” Elbert Hubbard

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Norman MacEwan

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know.” Mistinguett

“What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.” Coach Bear Bryant

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.” Bob Hope

“Sometimes when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” Lamartine

“And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.” Opal Whiteley

“I never met a man I didn’t like.” Will Rogers

“It’s good to have some friends both in Heaven and in Hell.” George Herbert

“If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows--it becomes a month, a year, a century, it becomes too late.” Jean Giraudoux

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain

“Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.” J.D. Salinger

“A friend is a present you give yourself.” R.L.S.

“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.” Colette

“I want everyone else I meet in the whole world to like me, except the people I’ve already met, handled, found inconsequential and forgot about.” Joseph Heller

“Platonic love is love from the neck up.” Thyra Winslow

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

She had this laugh - it bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.

Wars come and go but my soldiers stay eternal - Tupac

"The fate of the free world is in the hands of a bunch of hustlers and thieves."
--"Why should tonight be any different?"

from the movie "XXX"

To love another person is to see the face of God.

“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.” John Updike

“We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” M.L.K. Jr.

“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.” Colin Powell

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” Muhammad Ali

“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right, it is the American Dream.” Archibald MacLeigh

“Love is not a matter of counting the years--it’s making the years count.” Wolfman Jack Smith

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” Shakespeare

“To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.” G.W. Lebniz

“What you are becoming is more important than what you are accomplishing.”

“What I can not love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”

“Visit a school and swing on the swing set.”

“Try to look graceful putting on a sports bra.”

“Try to figure out what makes non-fat cheese taste so bad.”

“The important thing is not what others think of me, but what I think of me.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare

“Take hold lightly, let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” Agnes Repplier

“May you live all the days of your life.” Jonathan Swift

“You shouldn’t speak unless you can improve upon the silence.”

“Yes’m old friends is always best, less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.” Sarah Jewett

“Why is it so easy to break a heart, but so hard to mend one?”

“Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I haven’t tried yet.”

“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.” M. Von Eschenbach

“When you say ‘I love you’, mean it.”

“When fate shuts a door--come in through a window.”

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about and that was the beginning of fairies.” J.M. Barrie

“When we constantly look through the windows of the past, we sometimes lock the door to the future.”

“Start making up excuses now for not flossing.”

“Send your mother-in-law flowers on your spouses birthday.”

“Remember this: When somebody is down there kissin’ your butt, they could easily be biting it too.”

“Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risks.”

“Reject and condemn prejudice based on race, gender, religion or age.”

“Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves who rob us of the moment.”

“People treat me the way I allow them to treat me.”

“Never be ashamed of honest tears.”

“Never sacrifice your integrity for money, power or fame.”

She's a mustang and you just have to let her run...

“Make little decisions with your head and big decisions with your heart.”

“Love is merely a madness.” Shakespeare