Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria read more

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as read more

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we read more

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. -Gandhi.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I read more

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -John Wesley.

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, read more

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.

, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the read more

, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. -John Gottman.

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.