“Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.”

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky 

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair? -Walker Percy

May my silences become more accurate. -Theodore Roethke

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships. -Ruskin Bond

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail. -Rabindranath Tagore

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. -Gilbert Keith Chesterton

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. -Madame De Stael

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. -Maya Angelou