Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

A man without words is a man without thought.

John Steinbeck

Home is behind, the world ahead, <br>and there are many paths to tread <br>through shadows to the edge of night, <br>until the stars are all alight.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Abraham Lincoln

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Neils Bohr

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Johannes Tauler

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

Judy Collins

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Will Rogers

When you hold clear, focused thoughts about your purpose, accompanied by your passionate emotional engagement, you broadcast a stronger electromagnetic signal that pulls you toward a potential reality that matches what you want.

Dr. Joe Dispenza

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Justin Timberlake

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Ad

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke