There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
--M. Aumonier

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
--John Wooden

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.
--Agatha Christie