There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. – Henry David Thoreau

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do shell expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. – W. C. Fields