Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

-Charles Caleb Colton

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

-Edith Wharton

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

-Saint Augustine

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

-Earl Nightingale

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

-Martin Luther

When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers.

-Jack Handey Deep Thoughts