The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
--Alexander Graham Bell

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
--Aldous Huxley

To change and to change for the better are two different things.
--German proverb

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
--Baltasar Gracian

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
--Henry Ford

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
--Leo Tolstoy

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy.  People imagine they can reach one another.  In reality they only pass each other by.
--Franz Schubert

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
--Homer

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
--Knights of Pythagoras