Robert Frost

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

- Robert Frost, poet

Davy Barry

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."

- Dave Barry, author and columnist

Charles Dickens

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

- "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

John F. Kennedy

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

- John F. Kennedy, former president of the USA

Michelle Branch

"There’ll be days when your heart will break and you swear that all your strength is gone, and then you’ll find a way to carry on"

- Michelle Branch, 'Crazy Ride'

Lao-Tzu

"To be worn out is to be renewed."

- Lao-tzu, philosopher

Maya Angelou

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as making a 'life.'"

- Maya Angelou, poet and author

Benjamin Disraeli

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."

- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician

Will Rogers

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

- Will Rogers, comedian, actor, social commentator

Laurence J. Peter

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."

- Laurence J. Peter, teacher and writer

Francis Bacon

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, author, lawyer

Ingrid Michaelson

"Everybody wants to love, everybody wants to be loved."

- Ingrid Michaelson, 'Everybody'

Winston Churchill

“It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing”

- Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Britan

Gloria Steinem

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

- Gloria Steinem, feminist activist and author

Dr. Seuss

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

- Dr. Seuss, author and cartoonist

The Simpsons

"Kids are the best, Apu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate. And they practically raise themselves, what with the Internet and all"

 - Homer Simpson, 'The Simpsons,' created by Matt Groening

Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

- Steve Jobs, inventor and entrepreneur (co-founder of Apple Inc.)

Bertrand Russell

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian

Joni Mitchell

"Something's lost, and something's gained, in living every day."

- Joni Mitchell, 'Both Sides Now'

Albert Camus

"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher, journalist

Benjamin Spock

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock, doctor and author

Carl Jung

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

- Carl Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist

Bob Hope

“I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.”

- Bob Hope, comedian and actor

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Aristotle

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

- Aristotle, philosopher

Sarah McLachlan

"Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories."

- Sarah McLachlan, 'I Will Remember You'

Euripides

"Oh, what an evil power love has in people's lives!"

- 'Medea' by Euripides

Albert Einstein

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Jim Carrey

“I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.”

- Jim Carrey, actor and comedian

Bahya Ibn Paquda

"If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief."

- Bahya Ibn Paquda, philosopher and rabbi