" To the world, you are a dad. To our family, you are the world. "

— Unknown

" My brother is my only best friend. No one can replace him. "

— Unknown

" When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. "

— Alexander Graham Bell

" The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. "

— Jean Ingelow

" To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. "

— Mary Stuart

" Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become. "

— Elizabeth Fishel