Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.

Leonardo da Vinci

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Elias Canetti

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

Candace Bushnell

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

Haruki Murakami

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

John Lahr

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

Pope John Paul II

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Cheryl Strayed

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Billy Sunday

God made me and broke the mold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Robert H. Schuller