Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

Garth Brooks

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Buddha

As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the strangest kind- of flesh turned to atoms which drove before the wind, of stars flashing in their hearts, of outwardly the scattered parts of the vision within. In those mirrors, the minds of men, in those pools of uneasy water, in which cloud forever and shadows form, dreams persisted; and it was impossible to resist the strange intimation which every gull, flower, tree, man and woman, and the white earth itself seemed to declare (but if you questioned at once to withdraw) that good triumph, happiness prevails, order rules, or to resist the extra ordinary stimulus to range hither and thither in search of some absolute good, some crystal of intensity remote from the known pleasures and familiar virtues, something alien to the processes of domestic life, single, hard, bright, like a diamond in the sand which would render the possessor secure. Moreover softened and acquiescent, the spring with their bees humming and gnats dancing threw her cloud about her, veiled her eyes, averted her head, and among passing shadows and fights of small rain seemed to have taken upon her knowledge of the sorrows of mankind.

Virginia Woolf

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

Dakota Fanning

And then there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

John Green

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Martha Beck

Man tends to root for the underdog, because he fears that he will find himself in that same position far too often.

Michael S. Rosenberg

Do not be a product of your environment; instead be the creator of the product in your environment

Justice Okafor

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.

Ana Monnar

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

William Morris

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Christopher Columbus