"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."
— Jim Rohn

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get from it, but what they become by it"
— John Ruskin

"We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence. "
— David James Duncan

""These are desparate times." - Stephanie Plum"
— Janet Evanovich (One for the Money)

"He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious. "
— Nicholas Sparks (The Choice)