“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

“Never laugh at live dragons.”

“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”

Jonathan Swift
“May you live every day of your life.”

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

Maya Angelou
“The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

Trisha Yearwood
“What's meant to be will always find a way”

Edgar Allan Poe
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

Albert Camus
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”