There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. * - Katherine Butler Hathaway To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. * - William Ellery Channing Hell is full of the talented but Heaven of the energetic. * - Saint Jane Francis de Chantal The enthusiasitic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. * -Alban Goodier We usually see only the things we are looking for - so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not. * - Eric Hoffer What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. * - Jean Paul Richter The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. * - Oliver Wendell Holmes A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does. *- Haliburton After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history. * - Unknown Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. * - Susan Ertz Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free. *- Spanish Proverb Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. *- Lou Erickson You can destroy your now by worrying about your tomorrow. * - Janis Joplin A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal success.. * - W. B. Yeats Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. * - Antisthenes It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. * - Sydney Smith Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. * - Herbert Hoover Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. * - Gloria Steinem Envy eats nothing but its own heart. * - German Proverb I held a moment in my hand, Brilliant as a star, Fragile as a flower, A tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know I held opportunity. * - Hazel Lee But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. * - Vincent Van Gogh I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. *- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. * - Washington Irving Experience teaches only the teachable. * - Aldous Huxley Age is not important unless you're a cheese. * - Helen Hayes There is more to life than increasing its speed. * - Mahatma Gandhi It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever. * - Rick Bode Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. * - F. Scott Fitzgerald One of the rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. * - Josh Billings There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. *- George Santayana The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings CAN alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. * - William James In the case of political, and even of religious, leaders it is often very doubtful whether they have done more good or harm. *- Albert Einstein You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. * - Dale Carnegie Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. * - Daniele Vare The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. * - Carlyle My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial, beautifully coordinated and all the rest, it must be that there is not much going on. * - John F. Kennedy Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. *- Old Proverb All the good maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice. * - Blaise Pascal On a clear night when you look up at the stars, you wonder if there's intelligent life out there - or are they just like us? * - Unknown The quaility of expectations determines the quality of our action. * - Andre Godin A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read. *- Mark Twain How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. * - Wilhelm von Humboldt All real government is what may be called a Pentegerontamphitrapezy, i.e.five (more or less) old (more or less) gentlemen (more or less) sitting round a table. * - Joseph Rickaby A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. *- Reverend R. Inman An executive: A man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right. * - Elbert Hubbard Those who cannot believe in themselves cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. * - Roy L. Smith Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. * - Unknown There are no ugly women, only lazy ones. * - Helena Rubenstein Even a fool can govern if nothing happens. * - German Proverb Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. * - George Eliot The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. * - John Ruskin Be proud of your America. But remember, history has proven it is often run by people of immeasurable deception and corruption. Always be suspicious of them. * - Darril Gibson Jerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. * - Lyndon Baines Johnson Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad. * - Jacob Riis Be not afraidof going slowly, be afraid only of standing still. * - Chinese Proverb Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. * - Karl Menninger Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. * - Dwight D. Eisenhower A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. *- Frank Capra Find a need and fill it. * - Ruth Stafford Peale A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. * - Ken Adelman A murderer is one who is presumed to be innocent until proven insane. * - Unknown There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. * - Ralph Waldo Emerson He who laughs, lasts. * - Mary Pettibone Poole Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. * - Henry James You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. * - P.J. O'Rourke The optimist fell ten stories. At each window bar, he shouted to his friends, " All right so far." * - Unknown A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. *- Robert Frost The most beautiful make-up of a woman is a passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. * - Yves Saint Laurent Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. * - Alice Meynell Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed. * - Booker T. Washington If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. * - Carolyn Kenmore In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. * - Albert Einstein If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed. * - Lilly Tomlin Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. * - Lewis Grizzard When the heart is crowded, it has most room; when empty, it can find place for no new guest. * - Austin O`Malley Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. * - Abigail Adams. Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. * - Albert Einstein Let no man imagine that he has no influence. * - Henry George Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. * - African Proverb Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. *- Sam Levenson As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. * - Ernest Hemingway One of the best ways to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good. * - Unknown Only God is in a position to look down on anyone. * - Sarah Brown If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. * - William A. Orton Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. * - John Lubbock Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. * - Leo Buscaglia No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one. * - Elbert Hubbard The ordinary man is involved in action. The hero acts. An immense difference. * - Henry Miller The years teach much which the days never know. * - Emerson Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. * - Herbert Hoover A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way. *- Donald O. Hebb Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. *-George Washington I don't want to be quoted, and don't quote me that I don't want to be quoted. * - Winston Burdett Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration. * - Kin Hubbard Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. * - Gustave Flaubert To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other. * - Jessamyn West You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. * - Jacqueline Kennedy 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. * - Mark Twain The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. * - Richard J. Needham It is not the neutrals or the lukewarms who make history. * - Adolf Hitler Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. * - Robert Orben Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. * - Bruce Barton One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. * - Dr. Karl Menninger Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. * - Myrtle Auvil The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. * - Ann Landers Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. * - Emily Dickinson It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. * - James Thurber The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. * - Unknown Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. * - Stewart B. Johnson Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. * - African Proverb One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. * - John W. Gardner All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference. *- Voltaire No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. * - John Steinbeck Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. * - Robert F. Kennedy None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. * - Benjamin Whichcote. Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling. * - Claude Pepper Words can be beautiful. So can dreams. So can hopes. * - F. Clifton White God likes help when helping people. * - Irish Proverb The chicken probably came before the egg because it is hard to imagine God wanting to sit on an egg. * - Unknown Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God * - Chales Horton Cooley Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way. * - Abraham Lincoln We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. * - Robert H. Shaffer If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. * - John F. Kennedy You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. * - Ray Bradbury How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. *- Benjamin Disraeli The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. * - Thomas Jefferson We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. * - David Grayson I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. * - Stephen Leacock Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details. *- William Feather, Sr. Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. * - Kin Hubbard The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. * - Denis Waitley Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. * - Frank Outlaw The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere. * - Frank Swinnerton Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is onTV. * - Jerry Seinfeld Victory has a hundred fathers, and defeat is an orphan. * - John F. Kennedy The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. *- Paul Fix Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. *- Benjamin Franklin It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble. * - Casey Robinson Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. * - Gene Brown It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom. * - French Proverb The difference between a successful career and a mediocre one sometimes consists of leaving about four or five things a day unsaid. * - Unknown One fifth of the people are against everything all the time. * - Robert F. Kennedy Swift gratitude is the sweetest. * - Greek Proverb Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. *- William Allen White Beauty is also to be found in a day's work. *- Mamie Sypert Burns I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. * - Leo Buscaglia A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. * - Hindu Proverb It took a genius to develop an aspirin bottle that couldn't be opened by a child capable of operating a VCR. * - Doug Larson Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. *- Doug Larson We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. * - Pogo Only the mediocre are always at their best. *- Jean Giraudoux If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. * - Marva N. Collins Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. * - Ann Landers Your faith is what you believe, not what you know. * - John Lancaster Spalding The psychic task that a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurity. * - Erich Fromm He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. * - Seneca A great artist is never poor. * - Isak Dinesen Astronomy compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to another. *- Plato The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. * - Charles Kuralt An informal survey shows that what most people want for Christmas is two more weeks to prepare for it. * - Bob Stanley Fanatics seldom laugh. They never laugh at themselves. * - James Gillis Success is more attitude than aptitude. *- Variously ascribed I never hold back, man. I'm always on the outer limits of probability. * -Janis Joplin Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. * - Hannah More Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. *- Thomas Alva Edison You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. * - John Morley Wit is educated insolence. *- Aristotle The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. * - William James It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. * - Virginia Woolf I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. *- Diane Sawyer Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. * - George Halas There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? * - Kin Hubbard We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity. * - John Lennon Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. * - Regina Nadelson No nation was ever ruined by trade. * - Benjamin Franklin The woman who dresses well draws her husband from another woman's door. * - Spanish Proverb Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. *- Henry David Thoreau Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. * - Arthur E. Morgan In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. * - Thurgood Marshall Anywhere is paradise. * - George Harrison I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. *- Woodrow Wilson Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. *- Walter Elliott There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. * - Diana Trilling I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. * - Will Rogers No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. *- Eleanor Roosevelt It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. * - Tom Brokaw To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. *- Wilson Mizner People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. * - Abigail Van Buren Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will suprise you with their ingenuity. *- George S. Patton, Jr. I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. * - Josh Billings If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. * - Gaelic Proverb One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. * - Margaret Mead There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate. * - Unknown Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. *- Winston Churchill If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. * - Dan Rather If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. * - Florence Kennedy Faults are thick were love is thin. * - Danish Proverb All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. * - Winston Churchill Justice is incidental to law and order. * - J. Edgar Hoover He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. * - Aesop Love is a grave mental disease.*- Plato It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. *- Alfred Adler It is better to be a coward for a minute thatn dead for the rest of your life.*- Irish proverb To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. * - Donald Laird Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself. * - Scottish Proverb The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. * - William F. Buckley, Jr. The reverse side also has a reverse side. *- Japanese proverb It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. * - Various Tell the truth and run. * - Yugoslavian proverb Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. * - Martin Luther King, Jr. The only way to have a friend is to be one. * - Ralph Waldo Emerson Make peace with men and quarrel with your faults. * - Russian Proverb Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. * - Gary Mark Gilmore Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. * - Goethe Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. * - Haitian proverb If you want to make enemies, try to change something. *- President Woodrow Wilson The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. * - Robert Welch The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. * - Cicero, Roman statesman He is great whose faults can be numbered. * - Hebrew Proverb Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts - it's what you do with what you have left. * - Hubert Humphrey Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. * - Buxton When you're through changing, you're through. *- Bruce Barton There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. * - Ernest Hemingway You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'. * - Lyndon Baines Johnson We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. *- John W. Gardner The business of finding fault is very easy, and that of doing better very difficult. * - Saint Francis de Sales We are what we pretend to be. *- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. * - General William Westmoreland Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value. *- Albert Einstein. Too clever is dumb. * - German proverb In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. *- Anne Frank The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. *- Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 2, act 2 If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. * - Jewish proverb Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. * - Dr. Karl A. Menninger After all, even a politician is human. * - Mike Mansfield If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. *- Abraham Maslow Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. *- Andrew Jackson. The best measure of a woman's honesty is the zero adjust on her bathroom scale. *- Unknown Democracy substitutes election by the imcompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.* - George Bernard Shaw If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul. * - The Koran A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. * - Richard Nixon If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man. *- Mark Twain A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. * - George Bernard Shaw If you don't run your own life, someone else will. * - John Atkinson Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. *- Beethoven Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even where there are no rivers. *- Nikita Khrushchev Looking back upon any period of our career, we can safely say: What a fool I was! * - Paul Eldridge When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. * - Thomas Carlyle Two friends playing together. And love is when you like to play when he wants to and you may not want to. * - David Wilson, age 7 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. *- Abraham Lincoln Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. *- Charles de Gaulle I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. *- A. J. Liebling When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. * - E. W. Howe The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. *- Mark Twain Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. * - William Saroyan 'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. *- W. C. Fields I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. *- Thomas Jefferson I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket. *- Lyndon Baines Johnson It's inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office. *- H. L. Mencken Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. * - Czech Proverb Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. * - Leo Buscaglia What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. *- Edward Langley Law is a bottomless pit. *- John Arbuthnot Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. *- Charles Lamb I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. *- Bill Cosby The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office. *- Robert Frost Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless. * - Turkish Proverb I'm in a phone booth at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk. *- Unknown I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. *- Mark Twain One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. *- Bertrand Russell More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. *- Woody Allen Nature has given us two ears, but only one mouth. *- Benjamin Disraeli The future isn't what it used to be. *- Variously ascribed It takes time and a kind of power in oneself to know another, just as it does to get anywhere in one of the crafts. * - Sherwood Anderson Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. *- John F. Kennedy No one is more confusing than someone who gives good advice while setting a bad example. * - Unknown There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. *- Benjamin Franklin People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. * - Joseph F. Newton I hate Monday. It is a crabbed, nasty, overcooked, strangled sort of day, all out of balance, like a fool trying to stand on one leg. * - J. B. Morton Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. *- Mark Twain I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. * - Katerine Mansfield Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back or a fool from any side. *- Yiddish proverb The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. *- Confucious Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. *- William Shakespeare Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. *- Doug Larson After all, any given moment has its value; it can be questioned in the light of after events, but the moment remains. * - F. Scott Fitzgerald Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. *- C. Everett Koop Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas. *- Nimfa A. Gibson The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. * - Mark Twain The key to a person's character is found in how they respond to what happens to them, not merely in what happens to them. *- Unknown Success is a journey, not a destination. *- Unknown Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. *- Henry Thoreau It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. * - Mary Dixon Thayer