Quotes

Some of my favorite quotes from my mommy's exhaustive quote collection:

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough"
--George Washington Carver

"This universe, that created the stars, galaxies, Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, and the duck-billed platypus, is quite capable of finding someone for you that has the capacity to love you no matter what your situation."

--Jim Carrey, on the Oprah show

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm"
--Willa Cather

"Pugs are living proof that God has a sense of humor."

--Margo Kaufman, American writer

"A Proper Tea is very much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards."

--Winnie the Pooh, speaking for A.A. Milne

"'I can't say no grace like I use' ta say. I'm glad of the holiness of breakfast. I'm glad there's love here. That's all.'"

--Casy the preacher, in "The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck

"He who would travel happily, must travel light."

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Choose a job you love, and you'll never work a day in your life."

--Confucius

"Remember, the loudest person in the room is the weakest."

--Denzel Washington's character in "American Gangster"

"You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think"
--Chirstopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh