Louisa May Alcott

"Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success."

Rob Bremer

"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"

From the movie "The Shawshank Redemption"

"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

May Sarton

"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."