A smile is more important than anything else you wear.
-- Destiny594@aol.com (AOL member)

A little bit of kindness goes a long ways.
-- Charlie Daniels

A matter of principle will never make you money.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

A mind expanded can never contract to its original state.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that is not given is lost.
-- Indian Proverb

Always focus on a win-win.  There is a way for everyone to get everything they want in an abundant universe.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles

Any second spent dwelling on a less than enjoyable moment from the past robs you of the potential to enjoy the present and the present moment will never be available to you again; you cannot get it back.  By taking a single step in the right direction, you’ll set yourself up to win.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Anything is possible if you really try.
-- (From the movie “The Boy Who Could Fly”)

Believing in yourself, is a blessing in itself, and with all of our faith, we can give each other strength!
-- Yana Petkov (from www.PoetryPoem.com/Yana)

Can you read my mind?  Do you know what it is that you do to me?  I don’t know who you are, just a friend from another star.  Here I am like a kid at a school, holding hands with a God, I’m a fool.  Will you look at me, quivering, like a little girl shivering?  You can see right through me.  Can you read my mind?  Can you picture the things I’m thinking of?  Wondering why you are all the wonderful things you are.  You can fly, you belong to the sky.  You and I could belong to each other.  If you need a friend, I’m the one to fly to.  If you need to be loved, here I am, read my mind.
-- Margot Kidder as Lois Lane.

Constant living in the past is what creates depression, constant living in the future is what creates anxiety.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Contradictions do not exist.  If you find yourself faced with one, re-check your premises, and you will always find one to be false.
-- Francisco DiAnconia (from the book “Atlas Shrugged”)

Do what wealthy people do and you’ll create wealth.  Do what the common person does and you’ll stay common.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Do what you love and the money will follow.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Do, or do not.  There is no try.
-- Yoda (from the movie Star Wars)

Don’t play for safety - it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.
-- Hugh Walpole

Early to bed and early to rise, until you make enough money to do otherwise.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Either create your own journey or you’ll become a part of someone else’s.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Everything begins in thought.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Expectations set you up to be let down.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Experience your relationships as they are instead of what they should be.  What they should be is what isn’t and you have to deal with what is.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Focusing on what you don’t want will not help you get what you do want.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Good things in life take a long time.
-- James Pankow (from the song I’ve Been Searchin’ So Long by Chicago)

I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society, and a responsibilty to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
-- Bill Gates (06/15/2006)

I could definitely get into this superhero gig.
-- Chris O’Donnell as Robin (from the movie Batman Forever)

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their heart.
-- Martin Luther King

I’ve seen first-hand how Superman actually transforms people’s lives.  I have seen children dying of brain tumors who wanted as their last request to be able to talk to me, and have gone to their graves with a peace brought on by knowing that their belief in this kind of character is intact.  I’ve seen that Superman really matters.  They’re connecting with something very basic: the ability to overcome obstacles, the ability to persevere, the ability to understand difficulty and to turn your back on it.
-- Christopher Reeve (03/14/1988)

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
-- Bill Lyon

If what you were setting out to do were easy, everybody would already have done it and there would be no satisfaction or reward.  By virtue of the fact that you are challenged by your persuits, you have already taken the first step in achieving excellence.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

If you save one life, you have saved the whole world.
-- Jewish saying

If you spend time arguing about what’s right, you won’t get anything done.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

If you want more money, you must master the art of selling.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

In relationships, always focus on win-win.  You can have it all.  This is not an “either-or” world.  It’s an “and” world.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Isn’t it better to be happy than right? Having rights gives someone else the opportunity to wrong you.  You have no rights.  Having rights will always give other people the ability to pull you off-balance.  People that are highly successful in their interactions with others are quick to let the other person be right.  I mean it’s impossible to argue with someone that says “You’re right”.  Successful people realize that it sometimes takes a long time to get to right and they can decide to be happy at any moment.  Being angry can only get you to right, never to happy.  Decide to be happy instead of right.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

It’s always more fun to be around a winner than to tolerate a loser.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

It’s better to be happy than right.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
-- Walt Disney

It’s marvelous to go very fast.
-- Françoise Hardy as Lisa from the movie Grand Prix.

It’s okay to laugh in the bedroom so long as you don’t point.
-- Will Durst

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
-- Gandhi

Klaatu barata nickto!
-- Klaatu (from the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still)

Les enfants sont notre avenir. C’est à nous, les plus grands, de savoir les protéger et leur redonner le droit de vivre dans la confiance et la dignité. C’est une immense satisfaction de pouvoir se dire “J’ai sauvé un enfant”. Essayons de le fair pour le plus grand nombre.
-- Sylvie Vartan (de www.asvbweb.com)

Life is too short to sleep.
-- (from car bumper sticker)

Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
-- Spock (from Star Trek)

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
-- Bernard Hub

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
-- Alexander Smith

Luck is when preparation and circumstance meet.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Make your life happen on purpose!
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas Edison

Men are not prisoners of faith, they are prisoners of their own mind.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Money is made first in your mind.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Never let go.
-- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson (from the movie Titanic)

New life always comes after death.
-- Ronald Reagan

No one can make you happy or sad or excited or angry unless you guive them that power over your life.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

None of us would ever wish the evil that has been done to our country, yet we have learned that out of evil can come great good.
-- George W. Bush

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Nothing is impossible.
-- Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)

Only a life lived for others is worthwhile.
-- Albert Einstein

Only one life---make it count, make it fun.
-- Joyce Wiltfong (AOL member)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

People who hope their lives will change are people who do nothing for themselves.  These are the same people who believe God will take care of them without realizing that God already did by giving them the ability to take care of themselves.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Predicting the future is really quite simple when you know the past.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.  So far, the Universe is winning.
-- Richard Cook

Protecting against losses is the surest way to lose.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.  Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.  THAT’S relativity.
-- Albert Einstein

Quand l’horizon s’est fait trop noir, tous les oiseaux sont partis sur les chemins de l’espoir et nous ont les a suivis à Paris.
-- Sylvie Vartan (de ma chanson favorie La Maritza)

Realize that everything happens for a purpose and it serves you.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Relationships are built on agreements, some of them spoken, some of them unspoken.  As long as the agreements are upheld, the relationship will continue.  If an agreement is broken and not amended, they’ll eventually be a disruption of the agreement and of the relationship.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Remember that there is a difference between making money and making a profit.  I know many people that make lots of money and they have nothing to show for it.  Profit is the ability to make and keep money.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Remember, if you’re pointing a finger of blame at someone else, that three of your fingers are pointing at you.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Remember, when inspiring people that you’ll always attract more with honey than vinegar.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Seize opportunity!
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Self-mastery is the ability to control your thoughts, habits and disciplines physically, emotionally and mentally.  It’s the ability to take full responsibility to know that no matter where you are or what your circumstances, you did it.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Sex is just about the most fun you can have without laughing.
-- Woody Allen

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soom become inevitable.
-- Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)

Some people think that relationships should just flow and that if you have to talk about what you want there’s something wrong with the relationship.  That’s ludacrous! Imagine trying to get someone to paint you a masterpiece if you didn’t tell them what you wanted it to look like.  They’d paint their idea of a masterpiece and it may not be anywhere near what you want it.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Sometimes, all we need is a place to belong, a reason to hope, and sometimes we need a miracle.
-- (From the movie Miracle Dogs)

The best way out of a job you don’t like is to do a great job.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

The children are our future. It is up to us, who are the more fortunate, to give them the opportunity to live their lives with dignity and hope.  How rewarding it is to be able to know that you saved a child.  Please, be as generous as you can.  Working together we can make a difference.
-- Sylvie Vartan (from www.asvbweb.com)

The fastest way out of an argument is to agree and decide you’d rather happy than right.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

The foundational steps to total power are number one: self-mastery.  Second: the proper tools and lastly the ability to take action.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

The great thing about this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The next characteristic of people who have extraordinary relationships is that they take complete responsability for how they feel...they know that no one has the power to make them feel happy or sad or impassioned or turned on unless they give them that power.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

The number one skill of making money is the ability to relate to others.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

The only thing more uncertain than the future is the past.
-- Soviet proverb

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The road to success is always under construction.
-- (Anonymous)

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is always a market for the very best.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

There is no right or wrong; there are only consequences.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

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 even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeed!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values in his life: Purpose - Reason - Self-Esteem.
-- John Galt (from the book “Atlas Shrugged”)

To master time is to master your universe.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Tomorrow never comes and there’s no time like the present.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Tomorrow never comes: If you don’t do it now, you’re not going to do it.  It only gets done in the moment that you do it: now.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
-- Albert Einstein

Truly all you really have to do is: have fun and be happy.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Unless you have an agreement with somebody, don’t expect them to do anything for you.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

We can all change this world a little bit, we can all bring a bit of justice to this universe.
-- Dominique Lapierre

We can cure physical diseases with medicine but the only cure for loneliness, despair and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love.
-- Mother Teresa

We’re still a young planet.  There’re galaxies out there, other civilizations for us to meet, to learn from.  What a brilliant future we could have.  And there will be peace.  There will be peace.  There will be peace when the people of the world want it so badly that their governments will have no choice but to give it to them.  I just wish you could all see the Earth the way that I see it, because when you really look at it, it’s just one world.
-- Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)

Wealthy people are always having fun.  They don’t do anything that’s not fun and if something that they do doesn’t appear to be fun, they make it that way.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Wealthy people do more than they’re being paid for, always.  They always underpromise and overdeliver.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Wealthy people have plans instead of goals.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Wealthy people understand the power of being unique and being the very best.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
-- George Eliot

When I use words, they mean just what I choose them to mean.
-- Humpty Dumpty (from “Through the Looking Glass”)

When love and skill work together; expect a masterpiece.
-- John Ruskin

When relating to other people, learn to ask “what” questions instead of “why” questions.  Instead of asking them “why” they did something, ask them “what” can we do to get this back on track.  Instead of asking them “why” did this occur here, ask them “what’s” the reason you felt a need to do it this way.  “Why” is always going to get you their opinion.  What will always give you something you can take action on.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

When the horizon became too dark, all the birds left on the path of hope and we followed them to Paris.
-- Sylvie Vartan (from my favorite song La Maritza)

When you change your habits, you change who you are.  Better still, when you change who you believe you are you will automatically change your habits.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

When you consistently do what successful people do, you’ll create similar results in your life.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

Whether it’s cigarettes, overeating, alcohol, being a workaholic, or drugs, if it doesn’t help you it hurts you.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

With great power comes great responsibility.
-- Spider-Man

Without a plan of your own, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
-- (Anonymous)

You either do it, or you don’t.  There is no state of trying.  Try sets yourself for failure.
-- Marshall Sylver (from Passion, Profit & Power)

You have to know what you want to get it.
-- Gertrude Stein