It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
-- Jean Nidetch

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
-- Ward Cleaver

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
-- Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables'

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Dorothy Nevill

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
-- Harriet Martineau

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
-- Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture

When in doubt, do something.
-- Jerry Langley

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- E E Cummings

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
-- Henry David Thoreau

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden