“Science fiction encourages us to explore...all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.” Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Why don’t I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.” Abraham Lincoln

“There is no trivia in a strategic mind.” Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?” David Attenborough Nature Historian

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” Charles Dickens

“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” Steven Spielberg

“We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath--whatever.” Al Pacino

“Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.” Barack Obama

“Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.” Ken Blanchard

“You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.” Hank Aaron

“Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.” Letitia Baldrig

“One is never alone with a rubber duck.” Douglas Adams

“Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.” George Eliot

“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.” Frederick the Great

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E. E. Cummings

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Benjamin Franklin

I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.” Demetri Martin

“My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.” Dolly Parton

“A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.” Gary Vaynerchuk

“You can’t keep a squirrel on the ground.” Mary Lasswell

“There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.” Marc Jacobs

“Seeing my father’s handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.” John Carter Cash

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.” T.S. Eliot

“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.” Aldo Leopold

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” Dale Carnegie

“I think the Kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.” Dale Carnegie

“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.” Douglas Horton

“The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.” Robert Anthony

“Serve the dinner backward, do anything—but for goodness sake, do something weird.” Elsa Maxwell