Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive... - Eleanor Roosevelt

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"The giving of love is an education in itself."

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."