• Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. (Still Cove Journal)

• Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. (Annals)

• We are living in a world of beauty, but few of us open our eyes to see it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

• Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand; with a grip that kills it.

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

• If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

• Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
  Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
  Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
  Let me not creave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
  Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone;
  But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

• You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water.

Talbert, Bob

• Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Talmud, The

• He gives little who gives with a frown; he gives much who gives little with a smile.

• Let the honor of thy fellow be as dear to thee as thine own.

• When a man has compassion for others, God has compassion for him.

• Who is a hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend.

• Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Tannen, Deborah

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. (You Just Don't Understand)

Tannenbaum, Abe

• The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.

Tao Te Ching

• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
  Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
  If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Tart, Charles

• Don't go for happiness, go for truth!

Tate, H. Clay

• The person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a week has missed life's greatest serenity. (Building a Better Home Town)

Taylor, Harold

• The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Taylor, Ida Scott

• If you never learned the lesson of thankfulness, begin now. Sum up your mercies; see what provision God has made for your happiness, what opportunities for your usefulness, and what advantages for your success.

• One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

Taylor, Jeremy

• Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

Taylor, Mildred D.

• We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

Taylor, Sid

• Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Susan L.

• Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

• In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change--breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

• Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

• We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

ten Boom, Corrie

• Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren. (Each New Day)

• Faith is like radar that sees through the fog--the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

• Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Teale, Edwin Way

• The measure of enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. ("February 4" Circle of the Seasons)

Teasdale, Sara

• Life is a frail moth flying
  Caught in the web of the years that pass.

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Tengini, Madame de

• One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

• All things have rest: why should we toil alone,/ We only toil, who are the first of things. ("Chiroc Song" The Lotos-Eaters)

• Because right is right, to follow right were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.

• I can but trust that good shall fall
  At last--far off--at last, to all,
  And every winter change to spring. (In Memoriam A. H. H.)

• So many worlds, so much to do,
  So little done, such things to be.

• Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

• You and I are old... Though much is taken, much abides; and though
  We are not now that strength which in old days
  Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are--
  One equal temper of heroic hearts,
  Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
  To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (Ulysses)

Teresa, Mother, see Mother Teresa

Tertullian

• Where our joy is, there should our work be.

• You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

Terrilliger, Robert

• Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

Tesla, Nikola

• Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Thackeray, William Makepeace

• To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained--who can say this is not greatness?

• A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

• It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there. ("The Round Room Comes to an End" New York Times Book Review)

• The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.

Thaker, Vimala

• To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.

Thaler, Linda Kaplan and Robin Koval

• Once you get past the idea that for every winner there must be a loser, amazing things can happen. (The Power of Nice)

Thatcher, Margaret

• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. (The Observer, 1989)

• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

• In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Theroux, Paul

• Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Thoele, Sue Patton

• Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

• Only in the oasis of silence can we drink deeply from the inner cup of wisdom.

Thoene, Bodie

• What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

Thomas a Kempis

• Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity. (The Imitation of Christ)

• Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.

• If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

• Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

• Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

• Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Thomas, Clarence

• Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Thomas, Danny

• All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Thomas, Joan

• Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.

Thomas, Lewis

• We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Thomas, Lowell

• Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lynn

• There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance … the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual … and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy.

Thomas, Oliver

• So what are we here for? To become fully human. What does it mean to be fully human? To love and to be loved. (10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You)

Thompson, Charles (Chic)

• At home, parents utter eighteen negative statements for every positive one--usually to an inquisitive child who wants to know how something works. (What a Great Idea!)

• Be an explorer...read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play...do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world. (What a Great Idea)

Thompson, Dorothy

• All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfaction but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves. ("The Twelve-foot Ceiling" The Courage to be Happy)

• Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

• Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live...

Thompson, Sherrill

• Christmas is the happiness that lights our children's eyes.
  Christmas is a song of bells ringing through the skies.
  Christmas is a time of peace, of contentment deep within,
  A time of love and silent hope that years will never dim. ("Christmas Is…")

Thoreau, Henry David

• As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

• Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

• Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

• Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

• How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! (Walden)

• However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

• I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

• I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

• If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

• If you give money, spend yourself with it.

• In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. (The Service)

• In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

• If ... the machine of government ... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

• It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

• It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. (Civil Disobedience)

• Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

• Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

• Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

• Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. (Journal January 14, 1861)

• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

• Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. ("Where I Lived and What I Lived For" Walden)

• Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand… We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. (Walden)

• There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

• Things do not change; we change.

• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

• We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander. (Walden)

• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

• We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

• What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and deeds for new.

• Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits not foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

• What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

• Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Thorndike, Edward

• Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Thornton, Naomi

• There is no such thing as balance. How I long for that sense of repose after a good day's work. Does anyone have it? (in Working It Out by Ruddick & Daniels)

Thucydides

• The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

• Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

• The secret of freedom, courage.

Thurber, James

• It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

• Let us not look not back in anger, or forward with fear, but around in awareness.

• Precision of communication is important, more important than ever in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. ("Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear Muffs" Lanterns and Lances)

• You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Thurman, Howard

• Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

• When the song of the angel is stilled,
  When the star in the sky is gone,
  When the kings and princes are home,
  When the shepherds are back with their flock,
  The work of Christmas begins:
  To find the lost--To heal the broken--To feed the hungry--
  To release the prisoner--To rebuild the nations--
  To bring peace among brothers and sisters--
  To make music in the heart.

Thurow, L. C.

• A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

Tibbles, Gordon

• One of Albert Schweitzer's last statements was quoted as: "The destiny of man is to be more and more human." He was mistaken. The destiny of man is to become progressively less human and more humane, less compulsive and more creative, less instinctive and more intuitive, less material and more spiritual. Man's destiny is to always become more fully divine.

Tillich, Paul Johannes

• The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. (Time)

• Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone, and the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

• We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Tippett, Harry Moyle

• The Pilgrims came to America not to accumulate riches but to worship God, and the greatest wealth they left unborn generations was their heroic example of sacrifice that their souls might be free.

Tocqueville, Alexis de

• The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command. (Democracy in America)

• We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Toffler, Alvin

• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

• You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Tolkien, J. R. R.

• I sit beside the fire and think
  of all that I have seen,
  of meadow-flowers and butterflies
  in summers that have been;
  Of yellow leaves and gossamer
  in autumns that there were,
  with morning mist and silver sun
  and wind upon my hair. (The Fellowship of the Ring)

• It is useless to meet revenge with revenge. It will heal nothing. (The Return of the King)

• Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. (Fellowship of the Ring)

• "Where did you go to, if I may ask?" said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. "To look ahead," said he. "And what brought you back in the nick of time?" "Looking behind," said he. (The Hobbit)

• The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. (The Fellowship of the Ring)

Tolstoy, Leo

• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

• He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

• The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. (The Kingdom of God is Within You)

• Remember then: there is only one time that is important--Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. ("Three Questions")

• Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

• War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

Tomlin, Lily

• The best mind-altering drug is truth.

• When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

Tor, Henry

• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to excite your ideas.

Townsend, Robert

• When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

Toynbee, Arnold

• Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

• Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. (The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue)

• The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

• The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake. (A Study of History)

Tracy, Brian

• All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

• Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

• Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one-thousand percent! (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities. (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 138)

• Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

• Develop your willpower so that you can make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 153)

• Do the thing you fear, then the death of fear is certain. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self-confidence. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of our work. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Happiness and high performance come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were not going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

• Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

• I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

• The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

• Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• The most powerful and predictable people-builders are praise and encouragement. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

• Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"

• Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.

• Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

• Whatever you believe with emotion becomes your reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

• Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations. (The Treasury of Quotes)

• Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

• Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else. (The Treasury of Quotes)

Trevelyan, G. M.

• Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization. (English Social History)

• Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

• Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.

• There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power I the world? Then be yourself.

• To be at one with God is to be at peace ... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.

Trollope, Anthony

• This habit of reading ... is your pass to the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for his creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

Trottman, Dawson

• Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Troward, Thomas

• Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Truedeau, Arthur

• Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

Trueblood, D. Elton

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity critized and seeing it practiced.

Truman, Harry S.

• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.

• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

• We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

• When the decision is up before you--and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"--the decision has to be made. (Speech, National War College, Dec. 19, 1952)

• You know what makes leadership? It is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it. ("Leadership: The Biggest Issue" Time Nov. 8, 1976)

Truman, Henry

• I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.

Trump, Donald

• If you're going to think anyway, you might as well think big. (Time)

Truth, Sojourner

• I'm not going to die,
  I'm going home
  Like a shooting star.

Tse-tung, Mao

• In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Tsongas, Paul

• Nobody on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."

Tuchman, Barbara W.

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.--Barbara W. Tuchman ("The Book", lecture at the Library of Congresss 10/17/1979)

• Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. (The New Yorker, 1986)

• To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Tucker, W. J.

• For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. (Pulpit Preaching)

Tullis, Nellie Hershey

• The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you've been in the race.

Turgenev, Ivan

• Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

• You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Turner, Cali Rae

• The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.

Turner, Dale E.

• Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

• Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

• God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

• The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have "arrived" believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

• If our vocabulary did not contain the words trouble, adversity, calamity and grief, it could not contain the words, bravery, patience and self-sacrifice.

  Those who know no hardships will know no hardihood. Those who face no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the human characteristics we admire most grow in a soil with a strong mixture of trouble. (Seattle Times 2/1/03)

• In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.

• It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

• Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

• The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

• Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring. (Seattle Times, 1/11/03)

• Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

Turner, Nancy

• Oh, heart, let's never grow too old
  To smile anew, when Christmas comes,
  At tassels red and tinsel thread,
  And tarlatan bags f sugarplums. ("Let's Never Grow Too Old")

Turner, Ted

• If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

• You can never quit. Winner never quit, and quitters never win.

Turock, Art

• There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Tutu, Desmond (Bishop)

• Do your little bit of good where you care; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

• I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. (interview, Worldview) Dec. 1984)

Twain, Mark

• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. (The Mysterious Stranger)

• Be careful when reading health books; you may die of a misprint.

• A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

• The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter--'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.--Mark Twain ("The Art of Composition" in Life as I Find It ed. by Neider)

• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

• Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time. (The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson)

• The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

• I don't think there ever was a lazy man in this world. Every man has some sort of gift, and he prizes that gift beyond all others. He may be a professional billiard-player, or a Paderewski, or a poet--I don't care what it is. But whatever it is, he takes a native delight in exploiting that gift, and you will find it is difficult to beguile him away from it. Well, there are thousands of other interests occupying other men, but those interests don't appeal to the special tastes of the billiard champion or Paderewski. They are set down, therefore, as too lazy to do that or do this--to do, in short what they have no taste or inclination to do. In that sense, then I am phenomenally lazy. But when it comes to writing a book--I am not lazy. My family find it difficult to dig me out of my chair.

• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.

• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

• I'm quite sure that.. I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

• Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

• Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

• The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

• Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

• Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits.

• One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. ("What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" North American Review January 1895)

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

• A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. (Mark Twain's Speeches ed. by Paine)

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it.

• When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

• Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

• Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

• Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

• You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Twilley, Howard

• When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith--the idea that 'I can do it'--is the opposite of fear ('What if I fail?'). And faith creates motivation which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation...and eventually success.

Tzu, Chang

• My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

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