Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Hal Borland

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.

George V. Higgins

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death. Listen to them.

Connie Willis

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

Maya Angelou

Habits change into character.

Ovid

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau