Education

• Eureka College
• Illinois Central College
• Pekin Community High School

Favorite saying

• ""we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided" - Albus Dumbledore "It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. " - Eleanor Roosevelt "I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true." - Odd Thomas "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven" - Jesus "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road." - Henry Ward Beecher "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill." - W. Clement Stone "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." - Gladys Berthe Stern "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey "If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" - Unknown "I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx "A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks." - Charles Gordy "The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large." - Henry Wheeler Shaw Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. - Wayne Dyer There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. - Mary Kay Ash There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Mohandas K. Gandhi If you're feeling stressed out it's because you're not living in reality, but in your mind. So, say with me: "Never mind!" ~ Soren Lauritzen"