I collect quotes. I still own what's called a "Quote Book" that I started when I was a senior in high school. If I saw a quote or heard someone say something inspiring or just plain funny, I would write it down. I thought it would be best to keep quotes here on my own website. That way I will always know where to find them if I am far away.

I don't know why quotes interest me so, but it's just amazing the things that people say. Quotes help you re-evaluate situations and think about your life. They can also just be something funny that you hear along the way. This list will keep growing and growing, so be sure to keep checking back!

"He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for."

--Moroccan Proverb

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

--John E. Southard

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."

--Rita Mae Brown

"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."

--Ovid

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same."

--Anonymous

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."

--Shira Tehrani

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

--Michelangelo Buonarroti

"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."

--Oprah Winfrey

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

--William M. Thackeray

"A rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves."

--E. Stanley Jones

"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas."

--Anonymous

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

--Alfred D'Souza