On Giving:
"What do we live for, for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
-George Eliot
"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers."
-Whoopi Goldberg
"Your luck is how you treat people." -Bridget O'Donnel
"Giving whether it be of time, labor, affection, advice, gifts, or whatever, is one of life's greatest pleasures."
-Rebecca Russel
"Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving."
-Erma Bombeck
On Family:
"One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"The family is a haven in a heartless world."
-Christopher Lasch
"Family makes you who you are and aren't."
-Marcelina Hardy
"I said to my mother-in-law, "My house is your house." She said, "Get the hell off my property!"
-Joan Rivers
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
-Jane Howard
On Happiness:
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
-Ingrid Bergman
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
-John Lennon
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
-George Burns
"Happiness is not a goal, it is a
by-product."
-Elenor Roosevelt
On Learning
"If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of."
"The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand."
-Idowu Koyenikan