“In youth we learn; in age we understand.” – Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.” – Dorothy Allison

“Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.” Confucius

“Our chief want in life is someone who shall make us do what we can.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” – Virginia Woolf

“If you really care about the quality of somebody’s life as much as you care about the quality of your own, you have it made.” – Edie Windsor

“We never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb inside of his skin and walk around it.” – Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” – Bono