Be the best you can be today. Be kind to someone, be tolerant of and embrace those who are different, and tell at least one person that you love them. Do it today. Wade Harold Johnson

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

Sing the song of your life with wit and truth in your heart. Wade Harold Johnson

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. John Stuart Mill

We could have never loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass… George Eliot