"My passion should be clear and please know it runs deep within all levels of my consciousness. I feel it. I feel everything."
— Alyssa Milano

"My roots are planted int he past.
Though my life is changing fast.
Who I am is who I want to be.
I'm a single gal [mom] who works to hard.
Who loves her team [kids] and never stops.
With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter.
I'm a survivor."
— Reba McEntire

"This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid."
— William Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost)

"Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man
What is in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title,
Romeo, Doth thy name!
And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself....
- (Act II, Scene II)"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo And Juliet)

"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with
another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change
you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you
are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or
frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about
something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it
is about you that is making you unhappy. "
— Wayne W. Dyer

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
— Thomas A. Edison

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

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
— Robert Frost

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Berthold Auerbach

"Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party!"
— Robin P. Williams

"Music is the universal language of mankind."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

" Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."
— Bill Cosby

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
— Mark Twain

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
— William Shakespeare

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
— George Bernard Shaw

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
— Arnold H. Glasow

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
— Paul Sweeney

"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."
— Leroy Brownlow

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"The sun is new each day."
— Heraclitus

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"Nothing will work unless you do."
— Maya Angelou

"Fate loves the fearless."
— James Russell Lowell

"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."
— Sally Ride

"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher."
— William Wordsworth

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."
— Publius Ovidius Naso

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them."
— Bill Vaughan

"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."
— Lynda Barry

"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea."
— Vladimir Nabokov

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
— James Thurber

"Art is science made clear."
— Jean Cocteau

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
— Niccolò Machiavelli

"Everybody neat and pretty? Then on with the show! "
— Mickey Mouse

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for."
— N.H. Kleinbaum (Dead Poets Society)

"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."
— A.A. Milne

"There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart."
— Charles Dickens

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
— Epicurus

"Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a teenage boy"
— P.J. O'Rourke