Best of Carpe Diem!

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."  Mario Andretti

"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."  Thomas A. Edison

"Life is full of obstacle illusions."  Grant Frazier

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."  Stephen R. Covey

"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."  From movie, Vanilla Sky

"At the end of the day, when you go up to 'the big guy' he ain't going to care if you were famous or how loaded you were. It comes down to love — have you loved and received love?"  Jennifer Aniston

"One day your life will flash before your eyes.  Make sure it's worth seeing."  Author unknown

"There must be a spice of mischief and willfulness thrown into the cup of our existence to give it its sharp taste and sparkling color."   Hazlitt

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. If we can conquer outer space, we should be able to conquer inner space, too."
Christopher Reeve

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say an uncommon-place thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles."  Jack Kerouac

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."  Sigmund Freud

"A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks"  Michael Levine

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."   Arthur Ashe

"What you pursue, you don't get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own way, comes to you"   Rabbi Pinhas

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."   Norman Vincent Peale

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."  Howard Aiken, IBM engineer

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."  Thomas Jefferson

"Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline."  Jane E. Brody

"The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time."  W.J. Davison

"Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff."  Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts

"Don't be run so much by what you lack as by what you have achieved."  Marcus Aurelius

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."  Sun Tzu

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be."  Winston Churchill

"You're allowed to be a victim in your life once. After that you're a volunteer."  Naomi Judd