Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Madame Curie

Where liberty is, there is my country

Benjamin Franklin

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.

Lydia Maria Child

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

Henry David Thoreau

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carolus Linnaeus

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

William Bennett

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Horace

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

Isabelle Eberhardt

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

Lena Dunham

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Leo Tolstoy