And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Soren Kierkegaard

for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

Jane Austen

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Source Unknown

There is no reason for beauty. It just is.

Erin Kellison

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Marilyn Monroe

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

Michael Bloomberg

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

John Charles Salak

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Plautus

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Jonathan Kozol

Song is the heroics of speech.

Thomas Carlyle

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Richard Milhous Nixon