A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

-- English proverb

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.

-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
-- Michael Pritchard

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
-- Woody Allen