Jennifer  Hands  

Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; ;and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." 
-Lillian Hellman

"Give the best you have received from the past to the best that you may come to know in the future.
Accept life daily not as a cup to be drained but as a chalice to be filled with whatsoever things are honest, pure, lovely, and of good report.  Making a living is best undertaken as a part of the more important business of making a life.
Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream.  There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world."
-Sidney Lovett

"Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf than that I may not disappoint myself. That in my action I may soar as high as I can
now discern with this clear eye."
-Henry David Thoreau

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power."
-Honore De Balzac