"Ne Cede Malis." —author unknown, it is Latin for "Yield not to misfortunes." "There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." —J Donald Adams in New York Times, 1 April 1956 "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." —Voltaire "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." —President James Buchanan "It is better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others we know not of." ——President James Buchanan "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." —Jean De La Bruyere "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." —George Bernard Shaw "There is only one success,... to be able to spend your life in your own way...." —Christopher Morley (5 May 1890–28 March 1957), "Where The Blue Begins" "It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny." —Anthony J. "Tony" Robbins (29 February 1960– ) [Cripes! Then I'm cooked! —me] "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. "Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. "Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." —Christopher Morley (5 May 1890–28 March 1957) "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." —Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." —Soren Kierkegaard "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." —Winston Churchill "It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night." —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Everybody sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences." —Robert Louis Stevenson "Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse." —Joseph Brodsky in New York Times, 1 October 1972 "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil." —Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) "... frienship would have taken away their mystery and interfered with the good feeling I got from pitying them. So I kept my distance." —David Sedaris (from "Us and Them," Chapter 1 of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, ©2004 Little, Brown and Company "Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you—that is what has shaken me." —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." —George Eliot, English novelist (1819–1880) "Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity." —William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Most of us love from our need to love, not because we find someone deserving." —Nikki Giovanni (Born in 1943 and the author of some 30 books for both adults and children, Nikki Giovanni is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.) "Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of livin' is gone." —John (Cougar) Mellencamp (in "Jack And Diane")