When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat.

George Carlin

Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.

Russian proverb

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Seneca

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Japanese Proverb

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Zora Neale Hurston

I need space from a world that is filled with millions of mouths that talk too much but never have anything to say.

Kaitlin Foster