"I was never lost, but I was once bewildered for three days." (Daniel Boone)

"You must choose life." (Moses, Deuteronomy 30:19)

"If our lives are a function of conditioning and conditions, it is because we have, by conscious decision or by default, chosen to empower those things to control us." (Stephen R. Covey)

"Don't let's be downhearted. There's a silver lining to every cloud." (Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, 1885)

"Life is funny, and if you take it too seriously you are making a big mistake." (Kirk Douglas)

"Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else." (Anonymous)

"All of us would be nicer to each of us if it wasn't for one of us." (Lou Costello)

"Work out your own salvation with diligence." (Buddha)

"Once you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you." (Malcolm X)

"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into negotiations. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated." (Nelson Mandela)

"Give the public what they want." (P.T. Barnum)

"I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. Be as wary as serpents and harmless as doves." (Jesus Christ, Matthew 10:16)

"Return your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword." (Jesus Christ, Matthew 26:52)

"Save the whales, collect the whole set." (Anonymous)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." (Aristotle)

"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality." (Anwar Sadat)

"A coward dies a thousand deaths ... I'm only going to die once, not a thousand times. And this kid who comes to get me, whoever he may be, better be good." (Sammy [the Bull] Gravano)

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean)

"The mountain always has the final say." (Sir Edmund Hilary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest)

"It's not hard to stand out when the general level of competence is so low." (E.M.H., in the TV series Star Trek Voyager)

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." (Andrew Tanenbaum)

"Reach high, reach far, your goal the sky, your aim the star." (Anonymous)

"There is nothing that training cannot do." (Mark Twain)

"Dance your way to success." (Anthony Robbins)

"Retire when the work is done." (Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching)

"The only true progress [is our increase in our understanding] of our relationship with God." (Hoyt Axton)

"Allah chooses of His Messengers whom He pleases and vouchsafes to them the knowledge of the unseen." (Muhammad, Al-Imran 180, The Quran)

"Where there's a will, there's a relative." (Anonymous)

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." (Leo Tolstoy)

"You never run out of things to say about love." (Charlie Major)

"Hold a true friend with both hands." (Old African Proverb)

"Fatherhood is just the best-- and so's marriage." (Cameron Daddo)

"A servant is a master in disguise." (Anonymous)

"Mary gave birth to Jesus because she had an immaculate contraption." (Anonymous)

"I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory." (Anonymous)

"Laugh at your problems, everybody else does." (Anonymous)

"It is Heaven that knows me!" (Confucius)

"Talking about songwriting is like doing card tricks on the radio." (Uncertain attribution)

"For those that believe no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice. (Joseph Dunninger, pioneer of magic on radio and television)

"We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time." (T.S. Elliot)