At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

—Albert Schweitzer

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the winds blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

—Charles Dickens

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night; and thus he would never know the rhythms that are at the heart of life.

— Hal Borland

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom.  I hope you will make good use of it.

— John Quincy Adams

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

— Alice Walker

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain.  It's the loneliness of it.  Memories need to be shared.

— Lois Lowry

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault.  But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening.  Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the universe.

— Henning Mankell

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

— Muriel Rukeyser

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

Your talent determines what you can do.  Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do.  Your attitude determines how well you do it.

 — Lou Holtz

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

— J. M. Barrie

In one of the stars, I shall be living.
In one of them, I shall be laughing.
And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night.

— The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. 

— Carlos Fuentes

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

 — Gabriel Garcia Marquez