"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic." — Jean Sibelius

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help." — Thomas Fuller

"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." — Martha Washington

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

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward

"Asserting yourself while respecting others is a good way to win respect yourself." — Janice LaRouche

"When two people love each other, they don’t look at each other. They look in the same direction." — Ginger Rogers

"Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember." — Oscar Levant

"True influence over another comes not from a moment's eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes." -- Thornton Wilder

"I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning