One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
William J. H. Boetcker
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
Sexual living is a reflection of God's love for us. It has two key qualities, which is faithfulness and creativity of new life.
Vincent Nichols
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
Flip Wilson
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G.K. Chesterton
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
Robert H. Schuller
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden