“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”

“The self is not something that one finds, it is something that one creates.” Thomas Szasz

“That’s what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.” Richard Bach

“A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks…Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.” Richard Bach

“Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.” Jackson Brown

“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Jean Giraudoux

“But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy…you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feel like God put an angel on Earth just for you; could rescue you from the depths of Hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel. To have that love for her be there forever. Through anything.” Good Will Hunting

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” B. Williams

“Perspective is everything. To a worm, digging in the hard ground is more relaxing than going fishing.”

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” Simone De Beauvoir

“Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying; they just forgot to mention she was kind.” J. Ruth Gendler

“Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.” Isabelle Holland

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” Thoreau

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” M. Twain

“A man should kiss his wife’s navel every day.” Nell Kimball

“Be the first to fight for a just cause.”

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like.” Mark Twain

“…It is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us..” Dickens

“I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.” William Lloyd Garrison

“So much of me is you I don’t know just who I am…I gave you my soul. I gave you control of me. Can’t you just believe ‘you are my everything?’” Stabbing Westwad

“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.” R.W. Sockman

“I will not suffer this loss of you again and again and again. I refuse to continue to live in this perpetual nightmare, I decide it ends right here.” Stabbing Westwad

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” Susan Ertz

“When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.” Clifton Fadiman

“Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look, when hearts are of each other sure.” John Keble

“Before you were conceived, I wanted you/Before you were born, I loved you/Before you were here an hour, I would die for you/This is the miracle of love.” Maureen Hawkins

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” Michael Landon

“I can resist everything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde

“Waste not fresh tears over old grief.” Euripides

“It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” Shakespeare

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” Walt Whitman

“Problems are opportunities in work clothes.” Henry Kaiser

There would come time when the ache of his loss was not her unremitting companion.

“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.” James Stephen