"I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it"
- Steve Mariucci head coach, San Francisco 49ers
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
- William James
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
- Cicero
"You're really letting me down as a boyfriend, not being able to control the weather and all."
- Stephanie Vanderkellan (from "Newhart")
"Capture the moment, whoever you are. None of us is here forever."
- Adrian
"One way to get high blood-pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills."
- Earl Wilson
"I do benefits for all religions-I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality."
- Bob Hope
"There is no time like the pleasant."
- Oliver Herford
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
- Washington Irving
"Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world."
- Brenda Peterson
"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."
- H. L. Mencken
"He who is merely just is severe."
- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present."
- John Maxwell
"If you haven't attained true clear vision, this causes you to lapse into extremes, so that you lose contact with reality."
- Zen Master Yuanwu
"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."
- Lew Wallace (1827-1905) American author
"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself."
- C. S. Lewis
"Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it."
- C. Wright Mills
"Joy is the feeling of grinning inside."
- Dr. Melba Colgrove
"Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach."
- Epicurus (3rd Century B.C.)
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
- James Baldwin
"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."
- Clifton Fadiman
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