You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

George Burns

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family, friends, neighbors and the woman who you hardly notice who cleans your office.

Eric Weiner

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

Success flourishes only in perseverance--ceaseless, restless perseverance.

Baron Manfred von Richthofen

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Mary Catherine Bateson