Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence.

Congratulations!Today is your day.You're off to Great Places!You're off and away!

Dr. Seuss

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Neil Gaiman

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

The best is the cheapest.

Benjamin Franklin

I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing Gad cared. There might be a God, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own.

Cassandra Clare

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

Francois Hollande

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Tom Glazer

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Rosa Parks

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

Anna Quindlen

I filled out an application that said, In Case Of Emergency Notify.I wrote Doctor...What's my mother going to do?

Steven Wright

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

Susan Orlean

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams