Fannie Hurst

"Art speaks what words cannot."

"Science is the pursuit of understanding."

"Music heals the broken heart."

"Faith is the foundation of hope."

"Leadership is service to others."

"Work gives life meaning."

"Dreams are the blueprints of reality."

"Beauty is found in the unexpected."

"Death reminds us to truly live."

"Perseverance is the path to victory."

"Gratitude transforms the soul."

"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence."

"The ability to make a good living is not the ability to make a good life."

"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom."

"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one."

"Every woman should marry an income tax inspector. He's the only one who really knows what she's worth."

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you."

"There is no greater bliss than to love and be loved."

"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."

"Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination."

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; it is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"Life itself is the proper binge."

"Genius is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in mind and still function."

"Nothing matters if you don't try."

"The heart wants what it wants."

"One cannot direct the wind, but one can adjust the sails."

"Money cannot buy happiness, but it can buy experiences, which is closer."

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think."