"A walking meditation is a beneficial alternative when sitting meditations are getting too repetitive. With each step, begin to count from one to ten. Then count from ten down to one, and start again from one up to ten. As you walk and count, keep your focus on the sole of each foot as it hits the ground. What's happening as you count one, two, three, four, and so on to your steps is that you're bringing your awareness and focus back to the powerful present."
-- John Holland

"There are two types of people -- those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'"
-- Frederick Collin

"Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced."
-- Barbara Tuchman 

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back".
-- Chinese proverb

"I cannot give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody."
-- Herbert B. Swope 

"It's choices who make us who we are... And we can always choose to do the right thing."
-- Spiderman 3

"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation".
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
-- Garth Brooks, (on the board at Giorgio's Grill this morning).

"Never play a thing the same way twice."
-- Louis Armstrong

"There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures."
-- James Thurber

"don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back".
-- fortune cookie

"He who angers you conquers you."
-- Elizabeth Kenny 

"Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood".
-- Louise Beal

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy".
-- Edgar Bergen

"you can't change a thing that's happened thus far...
you focus on the game today and so hope we'll go out there and play well".
-- derek jeter

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

"Challenges are what makes life interesting. Overcoming them is what
makes life meaningful."
-- Joshua J. Marine, on the board at Giorgio's this week.

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."
-- Whitney Young

"Our perception and attitude toward any situation will determine the outcome".
-- Fortune Cookie

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
--Kurt Vonnegut