Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

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

I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

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

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

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.