Faith

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

-  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Timing

"The time is always right to do what is right."

-  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change

"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

- Benjamin Franklin 

Action

"Well done is better than well said."

-  Benjamin Franklin

Travel

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

- Saint Augustine

Character

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Passion

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Faith

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

- Voltaire

Forgiveness

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."


- Lewis B. Smedes

Love

"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."

-- Julia Roberts

Song

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

-- Lou Holtz 

Love

"When love is not madness, it is not love."

-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Education

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

-- B.F. Skinner 

Life

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

-- Havelock Ellis

Charity

"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer"

-- Ben Franklin

Entitlement

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."

-- Mark Twain 

Patriotism

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

-- Mark Twain 

Music

"Music is my religion."

-- Jimi Hendrix 

Life

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Happiness

"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."

-- Henry Drummond

Love

"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."

-- Henry Drummond

Education

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

-- Aristotle 

Music

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."

-- John Lennon 

Present

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

-- Buddha 

Love

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

-- Mother Teresa  

Education

"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

-- John Dewey 

Life

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

-- Charles Darwin

Music

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

-- Elvis Presley 

Vision

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

-- Henry David Thoreau

Happiness

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

-- Benjamin Franklin