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- We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), in her Nobel lecture
- We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- When you drink the water, remember the spring.
- Chinese Proverb
- Praise the bridge that carried you over.
- George Colman (1762 - 1836), The Younger
- Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Twelfth Night'
- The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
- Wilfred A. Peterson
- While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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