" The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. "

— Jane Austen

" Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. "

— Germaine Greer

" Brothers may drive you crazy, get into your stuff, and irritate you. However, if anyone else dares say so, a brother will defend you to the death. "

— Unknown

" "Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful." "

— Buddha

" May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. "

— Irish Blessing

" We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. "

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca