1. If books could improve us, librarians would be saints. Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. [G K Chesterton]

2. Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. [Helen Keller] Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. [G K Chesterton]

3. Animals are such agreeable friends: they ask no questions, they pass no criticism. You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grand-father was. [Irish Proverb]

4. God isn't so concerned about delivering us from the mess we're in, as He is concerned in seeing us grow out of the mess we are. [L Thomas Holdcroft] The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth will set you free! [Oprah Winfrey]

5. When a man feels, throbbing within himself, the power to do what he undertakes to do as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. [Orison Swett Marden]

6. The right sort of people don’t want apologies and the wrong sort of people take a mean advantage of them. [P G Woodehouse] Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. [William A Ward]

7. The finest steel has to go thru the hottest fire. [John Mitchell] All of us tend to put off living. We are always dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. [Dale Carnegie]

8. “I lose my temper, but it’s all over in a minute.” “So is the hydrogen bomb, but think of the damage it produces.” [Spencer Tracy] There are two ways to know people: (1) living with them. (2) handling their money.

9. He who can’t forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every person, sooner or later, needs to be forgiven. [Thomas Fuller] Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that just crushed it. [Mark Twain]