To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

~Kahlil Gibran

Scared of what? I am not scared of anything.

~Temperance Brennan (character in Bones TV series)

Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow.

~Author unknown

I never look back, I look forward.

~Steffi Graf

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

~Anthony Powell

Don't promise when you are happy..
Don't reply when you are angry..
Don't decide when you are sad..

~Author unknown

Proper apologies have three parts:
1. What I did was wrong.
2. I feel badly that I hurt you.
3. How do I make you feel better?

~ Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

~Warren Buffett

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

~ Epictetus

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

~Samuel Johnson

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results.

~Mark Twain

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and the beat you with experience.

~Mark Twain

Character's who you are under pressure. Not who you are when everything's fine. 

~Dr. Lance Sweets (Bones TV series)

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics. 

~ G.H.Hardy (book: A Mathematician's Apology)

I don't know, but I think what I've got is something slightly resembling... GUMPTION!

~Iris (Movie - The Holiday)

Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy. 

~Dr. Bob Kelso

(A character from the TV episode 'Scrubs')

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.

~ James Earl Jones