" The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. "

— Maya Angelou

" To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. "

— David Viscott

" The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished. "

— Deng Ming-Dao

" When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. "

— Antisthenes

" "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." "

— Confucius

" The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. "

— Jean Giraudoux