What Really Illustrates Your Character?
Character is what you are willing to do when the spotlight has been turned off, the applause has died down, and no one is around to give you credit.
— Ann Landers
On Securing Happiness
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
— Helen Keller
On Deciding to Do Nothing
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
— Gary Collins
What Makes a Life?
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
— Winston Churchill
What Does “Impossible” Mean?
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
— Justice Louis Brandeis
Ray Charles on Living Right
Live every day like it’s going to be your last, because one day you’re going to be right.
— Ray Charles
What Is the Opposite of Love?
The opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy; it is indifference. And the opposite of life is not death; it is indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
— Elie Wiesel
What Is The Ugliest, Most Awful Thing? Maybe Not What You Think!
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
— John Stuart Mill
On Dreaming
It does not do … to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
— Professor Dumbledore, in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone