It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one,
than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.


One person can have a profound effect on another.
And two people...
well, two people can work miracles.
--Northern Exposure - a TV Show

Money is not that important to me, but it is right up there with oxygen.

One man's sunset is another man's dawn.
--Fival Goes West - a Movie (Jimmy Stewart character)

The difference between loneliness and solitude is your perception of who you are alone with
and who made the choice.

The best way to eliminate any enemy is to make him a friend.

There is no such thing as a weird human being.
It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
--Time Robbins

I'm glad I did it. Partly because it was well worth it, but chiefly because I shall never have to do it again.
--Mark Twain

A stranger's just a friend you haven't met.
--Marge Simpson - The Simpsons

Even in the attempt to please others and make money
a true artist must first please himself-
by saying the things he needs to say.
E.Terrien

We've got two lives: one we're given, and the other one we make.
--Mary Chapen Carpenter

A best friend is someone who knows that song in your heart and sings it back to you when you forget how it goes.

Success is the residue of planning.
--Benjamin Franklin

A poor workman quarrels with his tools.
--American Indian Proverb

He who cannot dance says the drummer is bad.
--West African Proverb

Only boring people get bored.
--All Sauciu

Skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it was.
--Wayne Gretzky
If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.
--Madeline Albright

Humble people don't think less of themselves - they just think about themselves less.

You can either complain that rosebushes have thorns - or rejoice that thorn bushes have roses.

The surest way to make life hard for children is to make it too easy for them.

I am extremely patient, provided I get my way in the end.
--Margaret Thatcher