Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you. ... You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life.

See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.Physic of Metaphysic begs defence,And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense!See Mystery to Mathematics fly!

Alexander Pope

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Ezra Taft Benson

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

You can miss a person you've never known.

Jodi Picoult

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

William Ernest Henley

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Rabindranath Tagore

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Doug Horton

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

Ina Garten

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Vernon Howard

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Wendell Phillips

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash