He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there’s some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
—Robert Frost

If you are bent on revenge, dig two graves. —Eleanor Roosevelt

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine

Please, do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, it’s just true.—Conan O’Brien

Cruelty only breeds cruelty…hatred only causes hatred…if there is any way of soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil an hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love and understanding. — Clarence Darrow: Leopold and Loeb Trial

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and surpassing itself; if all it does it maintain itself, then living is only not dying.—Simone de Beauvoir

the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are all permitted to remain children all our lives.
—Albert Einstein