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Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Iets wat jy kan gee en nog steeds hou is jou woord.

Something you can give and still retain is you word.

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Author Unknown

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream

“Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.”

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.”

Alexander Graham Bell

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

God does not want us to be in continual unrest and self-reproof, but in quietness and confidence to trust Him to keep us pure and holy.

“Sometimes when we’re waiting for God to speak, He’s waiting for us to listen.”

Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future. Faith is having the courage to dance to it today.

Make two homes for yourself my daughter. One actual home and another spiritual home, which you carry with you always.

Catherine of Siena

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

CS Lewis

If you think you are too small to make a difference, you’ve never had a mosquito in your bedroom.

If you want to see yourself on the heights of achievements, hard work as much as this height wants.

“You don’t need to see the way if you follow the one that is the Way.”

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will leave the final one for us.

“Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.” John of the Cross

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, “Thank God, I’m still alive.” But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, (D, Calif.)

“It’s like their own personal equipment, like you have pens.”

General Syarwan Hamid of Indonasia, justifying why his soldiers carry loaded guns on the streets.

“Mr. Milosevic has to be careful. The calendar is ticking.”

Richard Haas, NBC News consultant

“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

John Wayne, Actor

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

Roger Daltrey, Singer/Actor

“Traffic is very heavy at the moment, so if you are thinking of leaving now, you’d better set off a few minutes earlier.”

Anonymous Traffic Report

“Today is Thursday. Or what I like to call on Friday, ‘yesterday.’”

Jimmy Fallon

“I’m gonna live forever, or die trying.”

Joseph Heller

“I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad.”

Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle, U.S. Vice President

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns

If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed, and it will monitor their heart through the night, and the next morning, if they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.

Mark Fowlr

“Sure, it’s going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.”

Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.

“If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.”

Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

“If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.”

Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.

“Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.”

“Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he’s pretty old. He’s thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.”

Ron Fairley, Giants broadcaster

“I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.”

Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony

“We can repair anything. (Please knock hard on the door – the bell doesn’t work.)”

Sign on door of repair shop