I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

- Henry David Thoreau -

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

- Benjamin Franklin -

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

- Drake -

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

- Albert Einstein -

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out.
The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero -