Samuel Johnson - The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Lady Bird Johnson - Where flowers bloom, so does hope.

Henry Ford - When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Jodi Picoult - All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

Samuel Johnson - Exercise is labor without weariness.

Samuel Johnson - Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not

Samuel Johnson - No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Samuel Johnson - It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Samuel Johnson - While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson - Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson - The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Smiles -Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Neil Kinnock - Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

John Cheever - When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

Pink - I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion.

Emilia Wickstead - To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.