"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."

- Jean Kerr

"Never let your head hang down.  Never give up and sit down and grieve.  Find another way.  And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

 - Satchel Paige

"Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

- John Charles Salak

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who's face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"What a pity we would rather worship tolerance than tolerate worship."

- Victoria Sheahan

"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

- Author Unknown

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."

- Jacob Ritts

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."

- Chinese Proverb

"I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end.  If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything.  If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."

-St. Francis De Sales

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson