Charity

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a
month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime --
help someone else." -- Chinese Proverb

What it takes to get anything done...

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do
it." -- Raymond Chandler

Puzzles

"All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their
past words and actions lie in light before us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Curiosity

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe
when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries
merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
-- Albert Einstein

The Journey

Life is not a destination; it's a journey. It's not a series of goals; it's a series of steps, of events unfolding as you make your way. Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, and learning. Mike Hernacki

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality." -- Les Brown

Drive

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. Sophia Loren

Change

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. Oscar Wilde

Children

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots, the other is wings."
-- Hodding Carter, Jr.