The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Orson Pratt

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

Maya Lin

I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!

Bill Watterson

It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubblingover boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is

Ernest Hemingway

The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.

Elisabeth Eaves

Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.

SilaPrabhrita

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Enya

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Barbara Mandrell

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Richard Braunstein