"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."

-- Barbara De Angelis

"If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?"

-- Katherine Patterson (Jacob I Have Loved)

"If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home."

-- Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes)

"If there is anything better than to be loved, it is loving."

-- Anonymous

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

-- Anne Frank (Diary of a Young Girl)

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

-- John Wooden

"The illiterate of the future wil not be the person who cannot read It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

-- Alvin Toffler

"Reach for the sky because if you should happen to miss, you'll still be among the stars.

-- Unknown

"You're quite right, Mr. Hatter. I do live in a topsy-turvy world. It seems like I have to do something wrong first, in order to learn from what not to do. And then, by not doing what I'm not supposed to do perhaps I'll be right. But I'd rather be right the first time, wouldn't you?"

-- Alice (Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland)

"If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut."

-- Albert Einstein

"A chemist who can extract from his heart's element, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."

-- Kahlil Gibran

"People love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel."

-- Irwin Federman

"Friendship is like earthenware; once broken it can be mended."

-- Josh Billings

"It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak and another to hear."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done."

-- Louis D. Brandeis

"He who makes excuses accuses himself."

-- French Proverb

"There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all."

-- Anonymous

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

-- Anonymous

"There's no greater magic than a dream come true."

-- Unknown

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."

-- Franz Schubert

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

-- Will Rogers