Thoughts to End The Week

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but stillI can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer



If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen ofthe world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands,but a continent that joins them.

-- Francis Bacon


Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

-- William James



Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasionalglance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautifulscenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

-- Harold B. Melchart



We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, thatgood outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that atthe eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent theworst before it happens.

-- Brooks Atkinson