Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

RUMI

In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Rumi

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

ROBERT MULLER

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear'not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Coretta Scott King

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer

John F. Kennedy

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

Olympia Dukakis

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

VICTOR HUGO

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

MARY OLIVER