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- So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
- M. F. K. Fisher
- Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
- John Neal
- Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
- Alice Munro
- Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
- Elizabeth David
- Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave.
- David Mahoney
- The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
- Erica Jong
- Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
- Margaret Peters
- Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
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