“So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.”
Billy Collins*
*The final line from the poem, The Names, US poet laureate Billy Collins’ ode to the victims of the 9/11 attack.
Once I found out I could communicate verbally again, it became a very important thing for me, like making up for lost time, making up for the years that I didn’t speak.
James Earl Jones,
actor
1931-2024
“Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up they will change the world.”
Jack Ma
“The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads—in the end—to the best within us.”
Jesse Owens
And indeed there will be time / To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
T. S. Eliot,
poet, playwright
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
Mark Twain
There are moments in everyone’s life where the stars align.
I know I’m going to do this for the rest of my life. I know this is the path I need to follow, whatever that means for me, and whatever success that means for me is what I’m destined for.
Sabrina Carpenter,
singer, songwriter, actor
“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” – Stephen Hawking
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
Queen Elizabeth II
