“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”

“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“Peace begins with a smile..”

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone….We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

“[…]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.”

“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”