Michelle Branch

"Everything comes and goes."

- Michelle Branch, 'Everything Comes And Goes'

Andre Gide

"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'"

- Andre Gide, author

Ellen DeGeneres

"Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most."

- Ellen DeGeneres, comedian

Bill Vaughan

"An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves."

- Bill Vaughan, columnist and author

Harry S. Truman

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

- Harry S. Truman, former president of the USA

Alexander Pope

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

- Alexander Pope, poet

William Wordsworth

"That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

- 'Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

Gemma Hayes

"You carry all you'll ever need in your heart."

- Gemma Hayes, 'Two Step'

Thomas Jefferson

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA

Eleanor Hamilton

"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver."

- Eleanor Hamilton

Cesare Pavese

"The only joy in the world is to begin."

- Cesare Pavese, author, poet, critic

William Hazlitt

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

- William Hazlitt, author, philosopher and critic

Brendan Gill

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

- Brendan Gill, journalist and author

Mark Twain

"To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

- Mark Twain, author

Wilco

"The first thing that you want will be the last thing that you need."

- Wilco, 'How To Fight Loneliness'

Edith Wharton

"There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow."

- Edith Wharton, author

George Carlin

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

- George Carlin, comedian, actor, author

J. K. Rowling

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Charlie Chaplin

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

- Charlie Chaplin, actor, director, composer

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Noah and the Whale

"What you don't have now will come back again"

- Noah and the Whale, 'L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.'

Helen Keller

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content."

- Helen Keller, author and activist

Henry David Thoreau

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

- Henry David Thoreau, author poet developmental critic

Lily Tomlin

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."

- Lily Tomlin, comedian and actor

Martin Luther King Jr.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Kurt Vonnegut

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

- Kurt Vonnegut, author

William Allen White

“My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias”

- William Allen White, author and newspaper editor

The Beatles

"All you need is love."

- The Beatles, 'All You Need Is Love'

Patrick Kavanagh

"We must record love's mystery without claptrap,
Snatch out of time the passionate transitory"

- 'The Hospital' by Patrick Kavanagh

Ayn Rand

"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."

- "Anthem" by Ayn Rand