"Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid."

"The synopsis looked good, the cover looked nice, you opened the book and began a new life. You found a new home, you met some new friends, you kept on reading, hoping it ould never end. You danced through the pages, you sang out the words you felt all their joy, and all their pain and hurt. The pages cut your fingers, and the words cut your heart, like the author had a knife, and was tearing your soul apart. You laughed with the characters, and with them, you cried, you fell in love with them, too but with them, you died, and when the book reached its end, and your broken heart couldn't heal, you suddenly realized that its not real."

"It's only pain which leads us to achieve something special."

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money."

"A faithful husband is one whose alimony check is always on time."

"Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music."

"If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done."

"Set your sights so high that even failure has in it an echo of glory."

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow."

"Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue."

"A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about."

"John 1:5"Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it."

"Every beginning is hard."

"Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver."

"A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age."

"Good company upon the road is the shortest cut."

"The wings of prayer carry high and far."

"As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more."

"Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve."

"In the act of loving someone you arm them against you."

"Honour follows those who flee it."

"A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return."

"The tanned appearance of many New Englanders is not sunburn - it is rust."

"To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings."

"When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied "There's a first time for everything so try to be funny and brief.""

"Keeping a secret from my wife is like trying to smuggle daylight past a rooster. Annoyed wife to husband: Can't you just say we've been married twenty-four years instead of "almost a quarter of a century"?"

"A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages."

"The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!"

"If you want your ship to come in you must build a dock."

"Before I started working here I drank smoked and used bad language. Thanks to this job I now have good reason."

"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing."

"Be courageous and He shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord."

"Trouble will rain on those who are already wet."

"I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings."

"To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage."

"Hope sees the invisible feels the intangible and achieves the impossible."

"If only parents would listen! If only they would let us talk instead of forever and eternally and continuously harping and preaching and nagging and correcting and yacking, yacking, yacking! But they won't listen! They simply won't or can't or don't want to listen, and we kids keep winding up back in the same old frustrating, lost, lonely corner with no one to relate to either verbally or physically."

"We rate ability in men by what they finish not by what they begin."

"The aware do not die, The unaware are as though dead already."

"Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction."

"Life is hard. Next to what?"

"Faith is like electricity. You can't see it but you can see the light."

"But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed."

"And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more."

"I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before."

"Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you."

"The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had."

"The sun sees your body, the moon sees your soul."

"His shortcoming is his long staying."

"Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office."