“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”

“When spiders’ webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” Ethopian Proverb

“That’s what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.” Richard Bach

“Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” B. Williams

“Perspective is everything. To a worm, digging in the hard ground is more relaxing than going fishing.”

“Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying; they just forgot to mention she was kind.” J. Ruth Gendler

“I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.” William Lloyd Garrison

“Problems are opportunities in work clothes.” Henry Kaiser

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

“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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Part of the trouble is that I’ve never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don’t all land like a child out of an apple tree.” J. Burroway