Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating;
there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. 
:: John Ruskin



 Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable;
with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats. 
:: Woody Allen



 Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.
Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path.
You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging,
only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. 
:: Winston Churchill



 A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. 
:: Mark Twain



 It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing,
but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping. 
:: John Sinor



 Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. 
:: Chinese Proverb



 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness,
that is a friend who cares. 
:: Henri Nouwen



 My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people:
those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. 
:: Indira Gandhi



 Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. 
:: Howard Thurman



 In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means,
education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body,
but for the two together. With these two means, man can attain perfection. 
:: Plato