New Year

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." 

-- Benjamin Franklin

Strength

"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Character

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Dreams

"Take away a person’s dream and take away their life."

-- Unknown

Self-Reliance

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime."

-- Confucius 

Kindness

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." 

-- Plato

The Christmas Spirit

The Christmas Spirit
Is that hope
Which tenaciously clings
To the hearts of the faithful
And announces in the face
Of any Herod the world can produce
And all the inn doors slammed in our faces
And all the dark nights of our souls
That with God
All things are possible,
That even now
Unto us a Child is born

Vocation

“Every man has his own vocation. Talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him… He is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.”


-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet

Success

"What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

-- Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter

Imagination

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

--Muhammad Ali, boxer