Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Nicholas Boileau

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

Jackie Kennedy

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Princess of Wales Diana

They say eyes clear with age.

Philip Larkin

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

Ed Markey

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Hayley Williams

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Buddha

Mens indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Thucydides

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Jane Siberry

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

Ronald Reagan