"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
— W.C. Fields

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
— Mother Teresa

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"After all, moms were appreciated only on Mother's Day. That's why they invented it. So they could treat you like a household appliance the rest of the year."
— Leslie Meier (Back to School Murder)

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

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
— Jane Austen

"live your life as if you may lose everything."
— Mary Higgins Clark (All Through the Night)

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"The best mirror is an old friend."
— George Herbert

"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. "
— Arthur Brisbane

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
— Louisa May Alcott

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi