Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

-Og Mandino

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

-Ann Landers

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may grow.

-Louise Driscoll (submitted by MelodyGregory)

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

-Clarence Darrow

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

-Marcel Proust

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

-Henry Ward Beecher

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

-Lou Brock

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

-Max L. Forman

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

-Dinah Shore

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

-Sir Thomas Browne