Dante: "A mighty flame followeth..."

"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."

—Dante

Nujood Ali: "I'd like so much..."

"I'd like so much for someone here to take my hand, to look at me with kindness."


—Nujood Ali, with Delphine Minoui, I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

Buckminster Fuller: "When I'm working on..."

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

—Buckminster Fuller

Anais Nin: "Each friend represents a..."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

—Anaïs Nin

Antonio Machado: "Wanderer, there is no..."

"Wanderer, there is no path. You lay down a path in your walking."

—Antonio Machado

Ganz & Mandel: "You know, when I..."

"You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it."

—Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel, Character of Grandma, Parenthood (1989)

Aaron Sorkin: "It's taken me a..."

"It's taken me a lot of years, but I've come around to this: If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you."

—Aaron Sorkin, Robert Guillaume as Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night: "The Hungry and the Hunted"

Rudolf Dreikurs: "A misbehaving child is..."

"A misbehaving child is a discouraged child."

—Rudolf Dreikurs, Children: The Challenge (p36)

Victor Borge: "Laughter is the shortest..."

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

—Victor Borge

Coldplay: "So come over..."

So come over
Just be patient
And don't worry
And don't worry

No I don't wanna battle
From beginning to end
I don't wanna cycle
Recycle revenge
I don't wanna follow
Death and all his friends

—Coldplay, "Death and All His Friends" from Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

J. M. Barrie: "God gave us memory..."

"God gave us memory that we might have roses in December."

—J. M. Barrie, quoted in Safe Return Home: An Inspirational Book for Caregivers of Alzheimers by Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers

Thomas Paine: "My country is the..."

"My country is the world... and my religion is to do good."

—Thomas Paine