" Brothers are like stars. You may not always see them but you know they’re always there. "

— Unknown

" My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me. "

— Jim Valvano

" The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we are afraid. "

— Muriel Barbery

" Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring. "

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

" To her, the name of father was another name for love. "

— Fanny Fern

" I may not be your first love, first kiss, first sight, or first date—but I want to be your last everything. "

— Unknown