"My home is not a place, it is people."
- Lois McMaster Bujold

"Getters don't get -- givers get."
- Eugene Benge

"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away."
- Robert Fulghum

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
- Sydney J. Harris

"To be awake is to be alive."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Life without a friend is death without a witness."
- Eugene Benge

"Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow,
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!"
- Thomas F. Healey

"Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf."
- Toni Morrison

"Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns."
- Marc Estrin

"Love is many things; It is the presents on a day of celebration, the smell of a fresh pie on a cool autumn evening, the kiss from mother to child before they drift off to sleep."
- Anonymous