"As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further toward him, with her own lips, new to herself, drowned and engulfed in love, yet solaced and triumphant, he was thankful to have existence at all, if only as a reflection in her wet eyes." -- from Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"To Love is a Chore -- One I Would Labor For Everyday." -- ME, 1997

"To be a step ahead of everyone else, you must lunge forward proudly with gallant strides.  Be courageous in the crusades you fight and your inspiration will move waking minds and eager hearts to places never before imagined." -- ME, 2001

"What nobler profession than to touch the next generation -- to see children hold understanding in their eyes, your hope in their lives, your world in their hands.  In their success you find your own and so to them you give your all." -- Unknown

"poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense.  That's what it is like for me.  I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me.  But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us.  We fell in love, despite our differences and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created." -- from The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

"How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry.  Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner, but we don't say anything because we are frozen with the fear of what those words may do to the relationship." -- from Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky.  That is why we have moonless nights.  But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all." -- from Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"There is only one way to succeed in anything, that is to give it everything" -- Vince Lombardi

"Leaders are made, they are not born.  They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile." -- Vince Lombardi

"The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything.  It's your mind you have to convince." -- Vince Lombardi

"Whatever happens now, I owe my life to God and will try to serve Him in every way I can." -- Ronald Reagan after his 1981 assassination attempt

"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.  It is not ours' by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.  Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again."  -- Ronald Reagan, 1967

"The example of good men is visible philosophy" -- English Saying

"Some men see things as they are and say 'why?'.  I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'. -- Robert Kennedy 

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- Robert Kennedy

"If you do not find a remedy to these evils, it is vain thing to boast of your severity in punishing theft, which though it may have the appearance of justice, yet in itself is neither just nor convenient.  For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?" -- Sir Thomas Moore from Utopia

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -- President Teddy Roosevelt at the Sorbonne in Paris, France; 23 April 1910

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