...exists only in imagination

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. 

-Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (1800-1859)

Are you proud of...?

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? 

-Laurence J. Peter, educator and author (1919-1990)

power of forgiveness

What power has love but forgiveness? 

-William Carlos Williams, poet (1883-1963)

...polite and listen to

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. 

-Brenda Ueland, writer (1891-1985)

..God's Gift

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

~ Desmond Tutu