Saturday, October 31, 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009

Nikola Tesla

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Howard Cosell

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

St. Francis of Assisi

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Maya Angelou

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Henry Clay

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Daniel Webster

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Colin Powell

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Jim Fiebig

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Friday, October 9, 2009

Abraham Maslow

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Charles Dickens

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Friday, October 2, 2009

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.