Blaise Pascal

"We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."

Dinah Shore

"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."

A. Sachs

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Margaret Atwood

"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Albert Schweitzer

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."

Heather Armstrong

"He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it."

J. K. Rowling

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

John Barth

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

Mary Pettibone Poole

"He who laughs, lasts!"

Eli Attie

"We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole."

Conan O'Brien

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you�re kind, amazing things will happen."

Henry Miller

"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"

Edgar Allan Poe

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."

Andre Gide

"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable."

John Wayne

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."

Jennifer Hudson

"The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations."

Norah Jones

"If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose."

Italian Proverb

"It is not enough to aim; you must hit."

Linda Berdoll

"Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own."

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!"

Aristotle

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."

Sir Winston Churchill

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

J. H. Holmes

"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent."