" This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. "

— Nicholas Sparks

" Brothers are like streetlights along the road, they don’t make distance any shorter but they light up the path and make the walk worthwhile. "

— Unknown

" A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. "

— Enid Bagnold

" It is in silence that we find ourselves, and in silence, we come closer to nature. "

— Unknown

" Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. "

— Dag Hammarskjold

" There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. "

— Edwin Markham