"You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone."
- Queen Latifah

"You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures."
- Charles C. Noble

"The biggest thing you can do today could be a small act of kindness."
- Cory Booker

"Don't compromise your self-respect. Never kiss an ass that is shitting on you."
- Unknown

"The real voyage of discovery consist not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes."
- Marcel Proust

"If a [person] is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
-Claude McKay

A person who wants to lead the orchestra must turn their back on the crowd."
- James Crook

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-Thoreau

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe

"The size of your next step is not important. The direction is."
- Rev. Joseph "Run" Simmons

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
- Pericles

In honor of dads everywhere:
"Anyone can be a father, but it takes a special someone to be a dad."
- Anne Geddes

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
- Bill Cosby

"I have little patience for people who hate in God's name. Before you tell me how much you love God, show it two me in how much you love all His children."
- Cory Booker

"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
- Norman Mailer

"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others."
-Unknown

"Shimjichi nu ada nayum (Kindness will never be wasted in any way)."
- Okinawan Proverb

"Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still."
-Chinese Proverb

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."
~Thich Nhat Hanh

"The real voyage of discovery consist not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes."
- Marcel Proust

"Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up."
-Cory Booker

"When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity."
- Steve Pavlina

For my son on his final day of high school:
"My [child] has made my love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and future worth living."
- Shaila (KISS-FM)

Happy Birthday, Prince!

In honor of the 53rd birthday of prolific lyricist, song writer, musician known as Prince Rogers Nelson, here's a bit from one of his lesser-known tracks:

“Did you ever stop to wonder why you put another down?
No man should asunder the joy that another man’s found.
Many a times the business you were working wasn’t ever filed in your name.
Maybe the cartridge you were playing don’t fit in your video game.”
- Prince (“Push” from the album Diamonds and Pearls)

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
- Edmund Burke

"Nothing will work unless you do."
- Maya Angelou

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
-Norman Vincent Peale

"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."
- Charles H. Perkhurst

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
- James D. Miles

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
- Benjamin Franklin