Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

You need songs that make you feel. Some make you string, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those...Run through the pain.

Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.