• "He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past"

Gabriel García Márquez

• "Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."

Virginia Woolf

• "When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

Jacob Riis

• "From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken, My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone."

Alone, Edgar Allan Poe

• "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race"

Calvin Coolidge

• "If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If they're shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop, keep going"

Harriet Tubman (as quoted by Hillary Clinton, DNC 2008)

• "All that mankind has done, thought or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books"

Thomas Carlyle

• "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golder door"

Statue Of Liberty Inscription

• "For now we see through a glass, darkly"

Corinthians 13:12

• "Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things"

Denis Didernot

• "For most of history, "anonymous" was a woman"

Virginia Woolf

• “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art”

Eleanor Roosevelt