Favorite Quotes


One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
  -- Helen Keller  (1880-1968)


We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
       -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
     -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)


The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
 by the way its animals are treated.
         -- Mohandas K. Gandhi  (1869-1948)


One kind word can warm three winter months.
--Japanese proverb


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
         -- Henry Adams, historian and teacher (1838-1918)


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
         -- Mark Twain, writer (1835-1910)


How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
 before starting to improve the world.
         --Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (1929-1945)


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
 If you want to be happy, practice compassion
-- Dalai Lama 


Happiness is when what you think, what you say,
and what you do are in harmony.
         -- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)


A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
         -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer (1803-1873)


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens
 can change the world, indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
  -- Margaret Mead, anthropologist