Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he, who has felt the same wound himself? - Thomas Jefferson

Never part with your illusions.  Without dreams you may continue to exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

When you get to the end or your rope, tie a knot and hang on.  - Franklin Roosevelt.

Morality can not be legislated but behavior can be regulated.  Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Circumstances are what make people who they are. - Unknown

In time, the truth almost always finds its way home. - Unknown

It is not the mountain that we conquer but ourselves. - Edmund Hillary

If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart. - Mother Cara Hale

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. - Henry George

Life is uncharted territory.  It reveals its story one moment at at time. - Leo Buscaglia

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

Statistics are human beings with tears wiped off. - Paul Brodeur

It' discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Noel Coward

Storms make trees take deeper roots. - Claude McDonald

Courage is contagious.  When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. - Billy Graham

Remembering is a dream that comes in waves. - Helga Sandburg

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress. - Elizabeth Montagu

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.