"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

-- Henry Van Dyke

"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

-- Theodore Adorno

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

-- William Shakespeare

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

-- William Wordsworth