Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure"

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

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Ossian Lang

The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them.

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Aeschylus, Agamemnon

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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Diana Nyad

There isnothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

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John Glenn

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

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James Arthur Baldwin

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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Dwight D Eisenhower

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

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Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

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Mario M Cuomo

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

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Susan Taylor

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

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Latin Proverb

Never give a child a sword.

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Cato the Elder

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

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