Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

-- Erma Bombeck

Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God.

-- Lenny Bruce

Nothing matters except states of mind, chiefly our own.

-- John Maynard Keynes

To laugh often and love much, to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

-- Clement Stone

Love is the Law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of man.

-- Mikhsil Naimy

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

-- George Seaton

Life is not a 'brief candle.' It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

-- George Bernard Shaw

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean
Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.

-- William Shakespeare

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

-- Gloria Steinem

If you wish to know what most occupies a man's thoughts, you have only to listen to his conversation.

-- Chinese Proverb

. . . the answer is not in finding the right person but in being the right person.

-- Eric Butterworth

Lecturer, entrepreneur and MBA business consultant, John Harricharan is the author of the award-winning book, "When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat." Spiritual Simplicity The Real Secret http://www.spiritual-simplicity.com/