"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."

____ Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
John Ruskin, "The Stones of Venice, I

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely

Copmuters are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J.J. Furnas

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy

If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.
Cincinnati Enquirer

Money couldnt buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Stevenson, in Bill Adler, The Stevenson Wit

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo

Don't be so humble, you're not that great.
Golda Meir

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E.B. White

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.
Henry David Thoreau

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Cicero

One who fears limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford

It isn�t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within � that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth

Everything, even darkness and silence, has
it's wonders.
Helen Keller    

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you
have a good chance of being a prophet.
Issac Bashevis Singer

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is
useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Lord, grant that I might always desire more than
I can accomplish.
Michelangelo

"Despite of what has all happened. I still believe people are good at heart."

Anne Frank

When the solution is simple, God is answering

Albert Einstein