Cicero

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

My children and I were at her bedside as she slipped peacefully into eternity. As I held her hand and saw mortal life drain from her fingers, I confess I was overcome. Before I married her, she had been the girl of my dreams, to use the words of a song then popular. She was my dear companion for more than two-thirds of a century, my equal before the Lord, really my superior. And now in my old age, she has again become the girl of my dreams.

John Adams

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
-On the White House in a letter to Abigail.

Winston Churchill

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

It's Been Longer

The moment a child is born,
the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
-Rajneesh

It's Been Awhile.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
-Lech Walesa

Easter

As we approach this Easter season, it is a priceless blessing to know that Jesus Christ lives, that He is the Redeemer and Savior of all mankind and the Son of God. We declare to all that Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).

The first Easter, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the greatest and most significant miracle of all time.

We testify that the Resurrection was literal and real. Our Savior brought to every person who will ever live on this earth the privilege of once again having a body, of living again. Even though it has been nearly two thousand years since the Savior lived on the earth, His teachings still apply today. He gave us a practical guide for living in peace.

We urge all people to search the Savior’s life for truths that will guide and give meaning to their lives. He died that we might live. We worship Him and invite all to do likewise.

-President Ezra Taft Benson, President Gordon B. Hinckley, President Thomas S. Monson, 1992.

Edgar W. Howe

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

-Edgar W. Howe

Gene McSweeney

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were.

-Gene McSweeney

Iris Murdoch

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

-Iris Murdoch

Sandra Boynton

Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt.

-Sandra Boynton

Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

-Joseph Addison

Arturo Toscanini

Assassins!

-Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra

Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

-Sir Winston Churchill