Quote the raven,"Nevermore"

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996)

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)