Regret
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing.
Katherine Mansfield

Respect
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoyevski

Responsibilty - Authority
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it. Those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Malcolm Forbes

Retirement
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons

Revenge
How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
St. Catherine of Siena

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard

Ridicule
Ridicule is more deadly than all the arguments in the World.
Frederick the Great, 1760

Roots
The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible.
Corrie Ten Boom

Sacred
If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman

Self
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz

The one important thing I've learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and one's self seriously. The first is imperative; the second is disastrous.
Dame Margot Fonteyn

Self-Pity
Lord, help me remember that I can never feel sorry for myself when I am busy loving.
Doris Haase

Service
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Marion Wright Edelman

Sexuality - Roles
It doesn't matter whether you are a man or a woman. What matters is your grasp of the problems and the need for action.
Margaret Thatcher

Silence - Apathy
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Smile
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch

Solution
The first step towards the solution to any problem is optimism.
John Baines

Sons
You don't raise heroes; you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.
Walter Schirra Sr.

Sophistication
The most sophisticated people I know -- inside -- they are all children.
Muppet creator Jim Henson

Spare Time
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Special
You are special just the way you are. There's no one else like you.
Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers)

Spirit - Ego
The spirit is carefree, lighthearted, and full of laughter. The ego is serious, arrogant, and contentious. In one there is peace and harmony and love, in the other fear and hostility.
Deepak Chopra in The Return of Merlin

Strangers
We know that people we love are both good and bad, we expect strangers to be one or the other.
Russell Banks

Strength - Gentleness
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as real strength.
Ralph Stockman

Stumble
When you stumble, make it part of the dance.
Unknown

Success
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
General George S. Patton

You will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Maxwell Maltz

Suffering - Human Condition
A man stood before God and asked, "Look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded, "I did send help. I sent you."
David J. Wolpe

Suffering will come, trouble will come -- that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
Mother Theresa

Sun
The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei

Sunrise
A sunrise is God's way of telling the world to lighten up.
Joe Hickman

Sunsets
It's almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
Bern Williams

Superstitious
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriett Beecher Stowe in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"