Greatness

'Not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.'

- Dr. Martin Luther King

In your hands

'I'm someone who believes that you contribute to your own future.'

- Tom Cruise

I don't care if you're rich, famous, cute, thin...

'Are you useful?'

- Barack Obama

A good investment

'If you show someone that you have faith in them, it will make them stronger.'

-Anonymous

The time is now...

'Days are lost lamenting over lost days. What you can do, or think you can do, begin it.'

- Goethe

HAROLD KUSHNER, 'When bad things happen to good people.' (1984)

Kushner, a rabbi, wrote this as a response to his child's fatal illness. About the things you can't control & how to deal with them, it is intellectually sound & practical & has remained popular.

- From the book, '50 Self-help classics', by Tom Butler-Bowdon

Sarcasm

'Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour.'

-Anonymous

The way to change

'Sow a thought, and you reap an action; sow an action, and you reap a habit; sow a habit , and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.'

- Charles Reade

Happiness & peace

'It's so much easier to choose to love the things you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing. Or for what you imagine you're missing. - It's so much more peaceful.'

- Anonymous

You can

'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.'

- Chinese Proverb