Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm Forbes

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.
- James Mackintosh

Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
- Epictitus

He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat.
- Robert Estabrook

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that is has grown by creatively responding to failure.
- Glen Seaborg

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- A.W. Pinero

It isn’t the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
- Woody Hayes

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
- John Quincy Adams

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
-- Wilma Askinas

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

Genius is initiative on fire.
-- Holbrook Jackson.

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.  Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
- Glenn Clark

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.
- Calvin Coolidge

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
- Duguet

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.
- Minot Simons

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
- James Harvey Robinson