“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future”

“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. - John Milton

If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. ~Oscar Wilde

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

“When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.”

Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice. Not something to wish for but to attain.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. - Carl Sandburg

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody” - Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. - Honore de Balzac

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Fannie Lou Hamer

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.