"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."

"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."

"Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot."

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."