Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. -Gwendolyn Brooks

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. -Walt Whitman

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. -Margaret Fuller

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. -Bono

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

You ever wish that fireworks were incredibly quiet and also didn’t disappear so quickly and also you could keep them in your home and also you could hold them in your hands? Because if so, I’d love to introduce you to, flowers. -Jonny Sun

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. -Isak Dinesen

It’s best to give while your hand is still warm. -Philip Roth

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. -Edward Everett Hale