So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How the worst mistake can wind up being the best thing that ever happened to us.
- Katie Klein

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Virginia Woolf

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

- Dr. Seuss

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- Paul Valery

In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
- Albert Schweitzer

This is just the real world and I'm growing up. Life it tough, it's crooked. But it's pretty fantastic.
- Brad Pitt

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
-Erma Bombeck

Old age ain't no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
- Rhonda Hansome

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
- Jane Sellman

Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows.
- Jennifer Unlimited