Thomas A. Edison - I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Anne Roiphe - A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Thomas A. Edison - There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas A. Edison - Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Matthew Arnold - It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done

Amy Harmon - I would remember how I had wanted her and hated her and wished she would leave me alone and never let me go. And I would miss her.

Thomas J. Watson - Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up

Leslie Caron - In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Thomas Aquinas - Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Lyndon Baines Johnson - All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

Harriet Tubman - I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Thomas Fuller - If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Harmon Killebrew - My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising b

Thomas Jefferson - But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Keith Richards - You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Elon Musk - When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor