Bets

“Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.”
― Erma Bombeck, Family - The Ties That Bind...And Gag!

“Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.”
― Kierkegaard

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I am no bird, no net ensnares me.”
― Charlotte Brontë