A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day....'.

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails