9/2/98 "Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true." --Cardinal Suenes

9/4/98 "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self." --Aldous Huxley

9/9/98 "If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record."

9/14/98 "If you are honest with yourself and can look in a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done." --John Havlicek

9/16/98 "In the world of give and take, there are not enough people who are willing to give what it takes."

9/18/98 "Life moves pretty fast -- if you don't stop and take a look once in a while it could pass you by." --Ferris Bueler

9/22/98 "What you do speaks so loud, I cannot hear what you say." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

9/24/98 "Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is a process; Working together is success." --Henry Ford

9/28/98 "If you don't climb the mountain you can't see the view."

9/30/98 "The chains of habit are usually too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

10/2/98 "Happiness can be thought, taught, and caught -- but not bought."

10/6/98 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein

10/8/98 "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." --Fred Shero

10/12/98 "You might as well laugh at yourself once in a while; everybody else does."

10/14/98 "Don't be content by being average. Being average means you are as near to the top as you are to the bottom."

10/16/98 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle

10/20/98 "Two ways to get to top of an oak tree -- climb it or sit on an acorn."

10/22/98 "Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most do because they are determined to."

10/26/98 "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." --Thomas Edison

10/28/98 "Do more than exist, live. Do more than touch, feel. Do more than look, observe. Do more than read, absorb. Do more than hear, listen. Do more than listen, understand. Do more than think, ponder. Do more than talk, say something." --John H. Rhodes

11/2/98 "Happiness comes when we stop complaining about our troubles and begin to be thankful for the troubles we don't have."

11/4/98 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has."

11/6/98 "When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die." --Lilian Smith

11/10/98 "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

11/13/98 "Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice." --William Jennings Bryant

11/17/98 "The answers to three questions will determine your success or failure. (1) Can people trust you to do your best? (2) Are you committed to the task at hand? (3) Do you care about other people and show it? If the answers to all these questions are yes, there is no way that you can fail." --Lou Holtz

11/19/98 "Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." --St. Francis of Assisi

11/23/98 "If you do the best you can, you find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else." --William Feather

11/25/98 "I complained I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet."

12/2/98 "The first principle of achievement is mental attitude. Man begins to achieve when he begins to believe." --J.C. Roberts

12/7/98 "Success is sweet, but its secret is sweat."

12/9/98 "In most cases, IQ is less important to a person's education than I will."

12/11/98 "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." --JFK

12/15/98 "You're the only one who can make a difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it." --Earvin "Magic" Johnson

12/17/98 "I can live with being blind, as long as I have my vision." --Helen Keller

12/21/98 "In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing." --Theodore Roosevelt

1/4/99 "You cannot leave footsteps in the sands of time while sitting down."

1/6/99 "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." --JFK

1/12/99 "The answers to three questions will determine your success or failure. (1)Can people trust you to do your best? (2)Are you committed to the task at hand? (3)Do you care about other people and show it? If the answers to all these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail." --Lou Holtz

1/19/99 "For success, try aspiration, inspiration, and perspiration."

1/21/99 "What can be imagined can be achieved. . .You must dare to dream, but there is no substitute for perseverance and hard work, and teamwork, because no one gets there alone." --'Agent Dana Scully'

1/27/99 "Minds are like parachutes -- not much good unless they are open."

2/1/99 "You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself." --Don Shula

2/3/99 "If I give you a clean sheet, what will you write? Will it be poetry, or just plain English? If you have something to say, say it now. For soon my sheet will be filled, and this chapter will end, sure as the next begins. . .with a clean sheet, new authors, and a million possibilities." --Unknown

2/5/99 "There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves." Lyndon B. Johnson

2/12/99 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." --Eleanor Roosevelt

2/16/99 "We first make our habits, then our habits make us." --John Dryden

2/18/99 "The best dreams happen with your eyes wide open."

2/22/99 "Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed." --Booker T. Washington

2/25/99 "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." --Lou Holtz

3/1/99 "Discipline is the whole key to being successful. We all get 24 hours each day. That's the only fair thing; it's the only thing that's equal. What we do with those 24 hours is up to us." --Sam Huff

3/3/99 "For success, try aspiration, inspiration, and perspiration."

3/5/99 "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." --William Arthur Ward

3/9/99 "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." --Norman Schwarzkopf

3/11/99 "To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work." --Sister Mary Lauretta

3/15/99 "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

3/17/99 "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." --Mother Teresa

3/22/99 "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

3/24/99 "The statistics on death are rather startling, one out of every one person will die. Live today, don't wait until tomorrow."

3/29/99 "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." --Soren Kierkegaard

4/7/99 "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." --Yoda

4/9/99 "The ability to use language sets humans apart as the dominant species. That, and we aren't afraid of the vacuum cleaner."

4/13/99 "The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is what you make of it."

4/15/99 "There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval." --George Santayana

4/20/99 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars." --Oscar Wilde

4/22/99 "Nothing will come of nothing. Dare mighty things." --Shakespeare

4/26/99 "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." -- Helen Keller

4/28/99 "We must use time as a tool, not as a couch." -- JFK

5/3/99 "You've got to believe deep inside yourself that you're destined to do great things." --Joe Paterno

5/5/99 "If you tell me, I will forget. If you show me, I will learn. If you involve me, I will understand."

5/11/99 "The World we have created is a product of our thinking; It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." -- Albert Einstein