We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Marian Wright Edelman

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Jodi Picoult

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Charles A. Garfield

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

William Blake

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Bodhidharma

It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.

Cassandra Duffy

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

Ann Brashares

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Andrew Jackson

...every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?...

John Geddes