"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."
— Henry Ford

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
— Leopold Stokowski

"Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. "
— Lawrence Duncan

"Where words fail, music speaks."
— Hans Christian Andersen

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."
— Beverly Sills

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
— Beverly Sills

"It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever."
— John Bytheway

"you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!"
— John Bytheway

"When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet."
— Benjamin Franklin

"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."
— Helen Keller

"Work will work when wishy washy wishing won't."
— Thomas S. Monson

"Harold Hill: You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering."
— Meredith Willson (The Music Man)

"Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can *fuss*.
Fezzik: Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at *us*.
Inigo Montoya: Probably he means no *harm*.
Fezzik: He's really very short on *charm*.
Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for rhyme.
Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
Vizzini: Enough of that.
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead.
Vizzini: No more rhyming now, I mean it.
Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?
Vizzini: DYEEAAHHHHHH."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
— Abraham Lincoln

""The healthy part of a donut is the middle, the sad thing is you have to eat the rest of it to get there!!" "
— "unknow"

"Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not found only at the end of the rainbow. Love is at the beginning also, and from it springs the beauty that arched across the sky on a stormy day. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shining through death. How rich are those who enjoy it in their associations with family, friends, and neighbors! Love, like faith, is a gift of God. It is also the most enduring and most powerful virtue."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Standing Something Cd: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts And Homes)

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

"Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily."
— Chinese proverb

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life."
— Brigham Young

"Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic."
— Bill Watterson

"Calvin (to Suzy)- You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!"
— Bill Watterson

"I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

"The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it."
— Thomas S. Monson

"Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few."
— Thomas S. Monson

"Don't save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion."
— Thomas S. Monson

""May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love."
--Thomas S. Monson, "Formula for Success," Ensign, Mar. 1996, 2"
— Thomas S. Monson

"A library is infinity under a roof."
— Gail Carson Levine

"Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory."
— Gail Carson Levine (The Two Princesses of Bamarre)

"It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind."
— Clara Barton

""The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.""
— Glenn Beck

"One night a man had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Scenes from his life flashed across the sky
and he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
one belonging to him and the other to the Lord.
When the last scene of his life had flashed before him,
he recalled that at the lowest and saddest times of his life
there was only one set of footprints.
Dismayed, he asked, "Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,
you'd walk with me all the way.
I don't understand why, when I needed you most,
you would leave me."
The Lord replied, "My precious child.
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering
when you saw only one set of footprints...
That was when I carried you."
— Mary Stevenson (The Illustrated Footprints in the Sand)

""Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.""
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
— J.M. Barrie

""The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.""
— Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins."
— Cornelia Funke

"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

"Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight."
— Gordon B. Hinckley