Lydia Maria Child - “Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”

Lydia Maria Child - “No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word father.”

Godfrey Winn - No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Chadwick Boseman - Understanding history is one of many ways to break the cycle. Lift up/amplify Black voices. Support Black owned businesses. Reach back. Mentor.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Benjamin Franklin - It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Emily Giffin - I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you’re single among a room full of couples.

Kurt Vonnegut - I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me

Booker T. Washington - Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Bennett Cerf - The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed

Lydia M. Child - An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Elie Wiesel - Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Rainer Maria Rilke - Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Frank A. Clark - A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.