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- Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.
- Colby Dorr Dam
- The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
- Alan Bennett
- There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.
- Tupac Shakur, Smile
- And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
- Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love," 1992
- I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
- I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
- Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
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