Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

— Donna Roberts

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

— George Eliot

You can do so much in 10 minutes’ time. 10 minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

— Ingvar Kamprad

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities—that is values, goals, and high leverage activities—organize around them.

— Stephen Covey