Lori Basile

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
― Mark Twain

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson