J. R. R. Tolkien

“Little by little, one travels far.”


Henry Adams

“Friends are born, not made.”


Joan Lunden

“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”


Susan J. Bissonette

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”


Eric Hoffer

“A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.”


Benjamin Disraeli

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”


Arab Proverb

“Examine what is said, not him who speaks.”


Andre Malraux

“The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without ‘playing up’ to anyone – even to himself.”


Lee Iacocca

“There ain’t no free lunches in this country. And don’t go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You’ve got to say, ‘I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.’”


Eric A. Burns

“Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.”


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