Inspirations - Fri., April 19, 2013

Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That's happiness.

-- Orville Wright, co-inventor of the airplane

Inspirations - Thur., April 18, 2013

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

-- John C. Bogle,  American Investor

Inspirations - Wed., April 17, 2013

Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

-- Bernard Williams, English Philosopher

Inspirations - Tue., April 16, 2013

If success is not on your own terms - if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your own heart - it is no success at all.

-- Anna Quindlen

Inspirations - Mon., April 15, 2013

When you reach the end of your life, do you want to be one of the people who are glad they did, or one of the people who wish they had?
--
Author Unknown

Inspirations - Fri., April 12, 2013

Heroism is really the quest to live according to one's internal standards of right and wrong, regardless of whether the world is watching.

-- John F. Groom

Inspirations - Thur., April 11, 2013

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

-- Sophia Loren

Inspirations - Wed., Apr. 10, 2013

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

-- Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Writer

Inspirations - Tue., April 9, 2013

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

-- Alonzo Newton Benn

Inspirations - Mon., April 8, 2013

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

Inspirations - Fri., Apr. 5, 2013

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

-- Unknown

Inspirations - Thur., Apr. 4, 2013

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives,  and remembering what one receives.  

-- Dumas The Younger

Inspirations - Wed., Apr. 3, 2013

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

Inspirations - Tue., Apr. 2, 2013

Don't give the people what they want, give them something better.

-- Entertainment pioneer Sam Rothafel