The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

RICHARD BACH

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

GEORGE TAKEI

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

A vast similitude interlocks all, All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets, All distances of place however wide, All distances of time, all inanimate forms, All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds, All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes This vast similitude spans them, and always has spannd, And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.

From 'On the Beach at Night Alone' by American poet Walt Whitman, first published in the collection Leaves of Grass (1856).

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

Adam Smith

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Helen Keller

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ballgame. Free speech is life itself.

Salman Rushdie

'Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty' I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Theodore Roosevel