All children are born geniuses. 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently, degeniused by grown-ups.

Buckminster Fuller 

The first requirement for growth in self understanding is an unswerving commitment to honesty with one's self. No one can break our chains for us, we have to do this for ourselves.

Elizabeth O'Connor

Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.

Elizabeth Bibesco

To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.

Author Unknown

Individuals can change things ... If everyone will just do their little part, then we can make a tremendous difference in the lives of other people.

Sarah Purcell

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If you heart is full of love, you will speak of love.

Mother Teresa

To have a friend is to have one of the sweetist gifts that life can bring; to be a friend is to have a solemn and tender education of the soul from day to day.

Amy Robertson Brown

There is something basic about friendship. It is like the structure that holds up a building. It is mostly hidden and absolutely essential.

Emilie Barnes