Voltaire - God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Aristotle - Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Voltaire - To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Jim Valvano - My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Voltaire - Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

William Arthur Ward - God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?

Leo Buscaglia - Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Buddha - No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

J.M. Barrie - God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Harriet Tubman - God’s time is always near. He set the North star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.

Joan Didion - To us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Samuel Smiles - Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Leonardo da Vinci - "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

William James - Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Tommy Lasorda - You give loyalty, you’ll get it back. You give love, you’ll get it back.

Billy Graham - God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.