Definition of a friend

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all of the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- Arabian Proverb

God uses us

No matter who we are and no matter how we are feeling or what we are going through,
God can still use us to minister his love and care to another person…
He chooses to use us to help others, and in the process, bring greater healing to ourselves.
-Zig Ziglar in Confessions of a Grieving Christian

Live Simply

Live simply that others might simply live.
— Elizabeth Seaton

Possibility of Failure

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-Abraham Lincoln

Politics

"What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others."
- Carlos Fuentes

Enemies

"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."
- Miguel de Cervantes

Doing Good

"...faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. "
-James 2:17

Being Yourself

"Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth."
-Mark Twain

Power

"If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority."
-Yugoslav proverb

What is Important

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."
-Chinese Proverb

Work

"Never continue in a job you don΄t enjoy. If you΄re happy in what you΄re doing, you΄ll like yourself, you΄ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
-Johnny Carson

Giving

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
-Winston Churchill

Service

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith in Humanity

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -Mahatma Gandhi