There's no place like home, except Grandma's. —Author Unknown

When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. —Japanese Proverb

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. --George Orwell

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. —Susan Heller

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. —Mark Twain

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stands a broader mark* for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure, too. —Benjamin Franklin

*broader mark = larger target, a reference from dueling

Graduation—>Commencement—>Beginning

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. —T.S. Eliot

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! —Anne Frank

Watching your daughter leaving with her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. —Jim Bishop

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. —Richard Bach

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. —Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. —Jonathan Swift

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. —Amos Bronson Alcott (Louisa May Alcott's father)

Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals. —Unknown

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. —Peter Marshall

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. —St. Francis of Assisi

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. —Jane Howard

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. —Erma Bombeck

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. —Ralph Nichols

When you travel, you experience,...the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations...and on most journeys you don't even understand the language...you are like a child just out of the womb. You begin to attach...more importance to the things around you because your survival depends on them. You begin to be more accessible to others because they may...help you...you accept any small favor...with great delight, as if...you would remember [it] for the rest of your life. —Paulo Coelho

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. —James Thurber

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do. —Author Unknown