"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." Rabbi Abraham Heschel

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others." Anne-Sophie Swetchine

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good." Bertrand Russell

"Think you can, think you can't; either way you'll be right." Henry Ford

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." John Wesley

"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait." Ellen Metca