"People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."

- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people."

- Confucius

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him."

- Booker T. Washington

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand."

- Spanish Proverb

"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd."

- Anonymous

"But the fruit that can fall without shaking

Indeed is too mellow for me."

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."

- Groucho Marx

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"

- Leonardo Da Vinci