“Oftentimes [New York and Boston] are accusing each other of various levels of suckitude. But it is in situations like this that we realize that it is clearly a sibling rivalry, and that we are your brothers and sisters in this type of event … [Y]ou’ve got a hell of a city going there. And you’ve done an incredible job in the face of all of this.”

— Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, April 16, 2013

(Source: The Atlantic)

"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."

George W. Bush

"[President Kennedy] noted that we came from countries where the governments may not get along, but people do."

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (describing his first visit to the United States as an 18-year old in the Red Cross).  

(Source: USA Today)

"It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another—but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good."

John Steinbeck

"We are all failures—at least the best of us are."

J.M. Barrie

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever."

Winnie the Pooh

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew."

Abraham Lincoln

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”

– Sir Ken Robinson

"Though lovers be lost love shall not."

Dylan Thomas

"Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius"

William Blake