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

— Unknown

" Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. "

— Thomas Wolfe

" It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. "

— Lou Holtz

" It is never too late to be what you might have been. "

— George Eliot

" Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow. "

— William Shakespeare

" The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. "

— Jean Giraudoux