An Amish Proverb

"We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old, but more like ourselves."

Rumi

"With every breath I plant the seeds of devotion.  I am a farmer of the heart."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Win like your're used to it and lose like you enjoyed it for a change."

Rabbi Abraham Herchel

"God is greater than Religion.  Faith is greater than Dogma."

Dalai Lama

"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.  You always have the choice."