If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. -Toni Morrison

“As my verbal footprint? I would say that this time on earth is to be lived fully, to be enjoyed, to be of service to somebody else, not just one’s self, and that to live fully should be the goal.” -Jessye Norman

One who works with their hands is a laborer; one who works with their hands and brain is a craftsperson; but one who works with their hands and brain and heart is an artist. -Louis Nizer

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -Edward Abbey

Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.   -Ellen DeGeneres

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. -Moliere

To move freely you must be deeply rooted. – Bella Lewitzky

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. -T. S. Eliot

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. -Louis de Bernieres