"The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children."
- Brian Sutton-Smith

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
- Booker T. Washington

"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."
- William Lyon Phelps

"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
- Kahlil Gibran

"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
- François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."
- Edward B. Butler

"It is better to eat soup with someone you love, than steak with an enemy."
- Stefanie van Eeden

"In aiming at absolute truth, we aim at the unattainable, and have to be content with broken portions."
- Anonymous

"Be careful what you think: a man's thoughts shape the way he lives"
- King Solomon (The Bible)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw

"To hear with your heart, to see with your soul, to be guided by a hand you can not hold - that's what faith must be."
- Michael Card

"A lie can travel round the world seven times before the Truth can get its boots on, but beware that Lie when the Truth does get its boots on!"
- D.L.Moody

"A truth that is told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent."
- Anonymous

"Following a wrong calling is like a farmer ploughing the stony hillside and leaving the fertile soil unturned."
- C.J.Langenhoven, a South African writer

"Truth is so special, we all love to have him, but we are shy in giving him away."
- C.J.Langenhoven, a South African writer

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
- Anonymous

"Work is love made visible."
- Kahlil Gibran

"Sure, the game is rigged, but if you don't play, you can't win."
- Robert Heinlein, American Science Fiction Writer