"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

-- Mark Twain

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF SUCCESS IN ANYTHING: "Do what you should do, when you should do it.“

-- Adapted by Doug Kelley

"There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.”

-- Harrison E. Salisbury

"There are always alternatives."

-- Doctor Who

"Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”

-- Unknown

"The thoughts you choose, rule”

-- Doug Kelley

"Our thoughts determine our responses to life. We are not victims of the world. To the extent that we control our thoughts, we control the world. "

-- Unknown

"Don't let weeds grow around your dreams."

-- Unknown

“What I do is not necessarily who I am.”

-- Doug Kelley

"A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry."

-- Unknown

"Perseverance always wins. Who is more persistent, you? Or the problem?"

-- Doug Kelley

"We struggle along with what we have, where we are; and a lot of times we can’t see where we are going, but we never know when a tiny seed sown will come to harvest." 

-- Dr. Ernest A. Fitzgerald, "How To Be A Successful Failure"

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.”

-- Disraeli

“Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

-- Susan Ertz

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

-- Soren Kierkegaard

"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.”

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

“At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived.”

-- Ron Smothermon

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

 -- Albert Camus

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

-- Albert Einstein

"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."

-- Epictetus (AD 55?-135?)

“Judgmentalism requires far less mental effort than empathy.” 

-- Tracy Kelley

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”

-- William R. Inge

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

-- Mark Twain

"When you open your mind to possibilities, there is no closing it again."

-- Tracy Kelley

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”

-- Nathaniel Branden

“What I said never changed anyone. What they understood, did.”

-- Unknown

“You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself, any direction you choose.”

-- Dr. Seuss

“No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.”

-- Charles Schulz

“Not everybody could be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service.”

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.