• The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

• You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

-Tove Jannson

• All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

-Dorris Lessing

• Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

-Unkown

• Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

-George Sanayana

• No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

-William Jennings Bryan

• Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

-Arnold Lobel

• Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

-Evan Esar