"Courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones... go to sleep in peace. God is awake." - Victor Hugo

"I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)." - E.E. Cummings

"I never found a companion that was as companionable as solitude." - Henry David Thoreau

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to trust only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what I had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E.E. Cummings

"One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel American, like America, love America and then work." - Georgia O'Keefe

"Some people care too much. I think it's called love." - A.A. Milne

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." - Emily Dickenson

"We are such stuff as dreams are made of." - William Shakespere