Very soon the heavens presented an extraordinary appearance, for all thestars directly behind me were now deep red, while those directly aheadwere violet. Rubies lay behind me, amethysts ahead of me.

She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.

Orson Scott Card

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Veronica A. Shoffstall

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

Junior Seau

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Arnold Bennett

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.

Gus Van Sant

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick W. Faber

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Gita Bellin