From birth to age 18 a girl needs good partents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

Sophie Tucker (1884 – 1966), American Singer

My idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

Bette Midler, American Singer and Actress

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An Occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

Harold Bl Melchart

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Paul Goodman

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658) Spanish Philosopher

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn American Actress

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott (1832 -1888) American Writer

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.”

Jim Collins, from his book, Good to Great

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedienne

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human ace.
Ernest L. Woodward