"Good friends 

are like 

stars... 

You don't always 

see them, 

but you know

 they are 

always there."

-Unknown

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

-Aristotle

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

-Charles Dickens

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."

-Charles Darwin

"No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage-ground of truth."

-Francis Bacon

"The root of happiness is altruism — the wish to be of service to others."

-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama