The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

~ Mal Pancoast

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

~ Dr. Seuss

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

~ Oscar Wilde

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

~ Henry Miller

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

~ Warren Buffett

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

~ John F. Kennedy

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

~ Ulysses S. Grant

The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. 

~ Abraham Lincoln

You have not converted a man just because you have silenced him.

~ John Morley

Today not possible, tomorrow possible. 

~ Eternal Grand Master H.U. Lee 

In victory, be humble. In defeat, be strong. In all things be fair.

~ Eternal Grand Master H.U. Lee 

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.

~ Colette

If the sky falls, hold up your hands.

~ Spanish proverb

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Providence requires three things of us before it will help us - a stout heart, a strong arm, and a stiff upper lip.

~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

No man was ever wise by chance.

~ Seneca

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

~ Victor Hugo

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

~ William Lyon Phelps 

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

~ Henry James