"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds,
unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live."

Mortimer Adler

"Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself."

~Norman W. Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas"

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things,
or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are,
then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

~Margaret Young

"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction
listen to weather forecasts and economists?"

 ~Kelvin Throop III

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make,
who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

 ~Stephen Levine

The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning
 - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either. 

 ~John J. Welsh

"The human brain starts working the minute you are born
and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."

George Jessel

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have,
and one of the best things you can be.

Douglas Pagels

Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Life is a series of collisions with the future;
it is not the sum of what we have been,
but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going
to put words on them ourselves. The book is called
Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

"May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!" 

~Author Unknown

"We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this,
and steer clear of me at parties.  Often, as a sign of their great respect,
they don't even invite me."

Dave Barry

"The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize

you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back."

Franklin P. Jones

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."

Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)

"All human beings should try to learn before they die
what they are running from, and to, and why."

James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

Sidney J. Harris