Ann Landers

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.