"With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence."

"Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose."

"In the midst of life we are in death."

"Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun some joy some real satisfaction that day is a loss."

"It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees."

"When you read a line that is just so well-written you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute."

"She's an honor student. She's always saying "Yes Your Honor. No Your Honor.""

"Liberty is always unfinished business."

"Every small boy wonders why his father didn't go into the ice cream business."

"If you can't be thankful for what you receive be thankful for what you escape."

"If cold December gave you birth The month of snow and ice and mirth Place on your hand a turquoise blue Success will bless what'er you do."

"To love others we must first learn to love ourselves."

"Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it."

"Wage of rage of revenge ain't worth it. What's the point of being enslaved by a slave?"

"The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music."

"The company makes the feast."

"When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad."

"The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way."

"Krishna taught in the Bhadavad Gita: 'karmanyeva-adhikaraste ma phalesu kadachana', which means, 'Be active, never be inactive, and don't react to the outcome of the work."

"The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever - do not abandon the works of your hands."

"For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters."

"Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace."

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire."

"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."

"You cannot give what you don't have."

"An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace."

"Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public."

"Born on Monday fair in the face Born on Tuesday full of God's grace Born on Wednesday sour and sad Born on Thursday merry and glad Born on Friday worthily given."

"A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute."

"I stayed with him for three days, and he then asked: 'Do you know any craft by which to make your living?' I told him: 'I am a lawyer, a scientist, a scribe, a mathematician and a calligrapher.' 'There is no market for that kind of thing here,' he replied. 'No one in this city has any knowledge of science or of writing and their only concern is making money.' 'By God,' I said, 'I know nothing apart from what I have told you."

"All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis)."

"Compliments are only lies in court clothes."

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes."

"He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has."

"Time is the dressing room for eternity."

"Too often when conscience tries to speak the line seems to be busy."

"The last word in an argument is what a wife has. Anything a husband says after that is the beginning of another argument."

"Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing."

"Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit."

"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me."

"When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young."

"No one chooses his parent or childhood, but you can choose your own direction. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome."

"Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants" God always answers with what we need."

"This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover."

"How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand."

"He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . ."

"The best of you are those who are best to the women."

"There is but one blasphemy and that is injustice."

"There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential."

"The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something."