What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

Cindy Margolis

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Pete Townshend

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

Charles A. Garfield

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Toni Cade Bambara

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.

Proverb

Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got.

Santosh Kalwar

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Honore de Balzac

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. Dr. Martin Luther King

Walden and Civil Disobedience