- Mark Twain

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life – time, if not asked to lend money.

- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

- Mark Twain

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

- Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

- Mark Twain

Oprah Winfrey
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Oprah Winfrey
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Oprah Winfrey
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Oprah Winfrey
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey

-Catherine Pulsifer

Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.

-Proverb

A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.

-Proverb

To the outside world we all grow old.
But not to brothers and sisters.
We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts.
We share private family jokes.
We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.
We live outside the touch of time.

-Clara Ortega
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

-Anna Quindlan

There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.

- Astrid Alauda

-Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

-Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.

-Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

-Mark Twain
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

-Edith Wharton
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

-Colette
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

-James Openheim

-Spanish Proverb

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

-George Santayana, The Life of Reason

We cannot destroy kindred:  our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

-Marquise de Sévigné

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

-Anthony Brandt

Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.

-Author Unknown

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.

-Joe Paterno

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.

-M.H. Alderson

 
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

-Winston Churchill

 
If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.

-M.H. Alderson

 
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

-Winston Churchill

 
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

-Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

 
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

-Donald A. Miller

-Donald H. McGannon

 
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

-Gene Mauch

 
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

-Elaine Agather

 
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

-Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

 
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

-Albert Schweitzer

 
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

-Robert Jarvik

A leader is a dealer in hope.

-Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed

 
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.

-Tom Peters

-E.E. Cummings

Laughter is an instant vacation.

-Milton Berle

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

-Woody Allen

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.

-Author Unknown

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

-Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

-Yiddish Proverb

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.

-Raymond Hitchcock

-Susan Scarf Merrell

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

-Hesiod

A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.

-Marian Sandmaier

The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.

-Clara Ortega

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way.

-Pamela Dugdale

You can kid the world. But not your sister.

-Charlotte Gray
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

-Pam Brown
It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on!

-Author Unknown

Robin Williams

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

Proverb
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

-William Shakespeare
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

-Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You