"A family is a The Buddha place where minds come in contact with one another.

If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one other it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." "A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy." I'm thankful for my years spent with this family; for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them and lead by their example; where ever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes. This isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. Maybe it's because I look at everything as a Jean Racine

Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (She is quoting her exit interview)

lesson, or I don't want to walk around angry. Or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen, but have to accept; things we don't want to know, but have to learn, and people we can't live without, but have to let go. "Remembrance of Marcel Proust things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." "When I was younger Mark Twain I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it." "Whatever you are, be a good one." "We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin." Abraham Lincoln Andr Berthiaume

"All humanity is Mahatma Ghandi one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul." But I have Robert Frost promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep. "If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible. "The herds seek out the great, not for their seed, but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need." "Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can Niccolo Machiavelli

Thomas A. Kempis

Napoleon Bonaparte

Bernard Malamud

go." "Fame will go by Marilyn Monroe and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live." "I believe humanity Penelope was born from Garcia conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. And in the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. Some point, we're forced to face the truth...ourselves. "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." "Evil endures a moment's flush and then leaves but a burnt up shell." Ralph Ellison

Elise Cabot

"When we were Madeleine children, we used L'Engle to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to

accept vulnerability, to be alive is to be vulnerable." "Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older they judge them, sometimes they forgive them." "There is no such thing as part freedom." "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

Oscar Wilde

Nelson Mandela

Galileo Galilei

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Helen Keller

"What really raises Frederich one's indignation Nietzsche against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering." "What happened in William

the past that was Glasser painful has a great deal to do with what we are today." Hunting is not a Paul Rodriguez sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. "Nothing revives Vladimir the past so Nabokov completely as a smell that was once associated with it." It's hard to fight Sally Kempton an enemy who has outposts in your head. There's no chance, Ella Wheeler no destiny, no Wilcox fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. "Tomorrow, you James T. McKay promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today." "Most people of Honore de action are inclined Balzac to fatalism and most people of thought believe in providence." "When I let go of Lao Tzu

what I am, I become what I might be." "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence." "The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart, that goes for lying to yourself even moreso than lying to another." "People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it." Dorothea Dix

Elizabeth Bear

Walter Langer

"The old faiths Lizette Reese light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and puts them out." "It is not his Siddharta enemy or foe that Buddha lures him to evil ways." "Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists." Antonio Porchia

"Sometimes human Stephen King places create inhuman monsters." "Every journey into Adrienne Rich the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events." "Of this alone, Agathon even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been." "Bring the past Domnico Cieri only if you're Estrada going to build from it." "The sea has never Joseph Conrad been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness." "We are tied to the John F. ocean. And when we Kennedy go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch we are going back from whence we came." "And yet to every Thomas Hardy bad there's a worse." "What lies in our Aristotle power to do, lies in our power not to

do."