You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.
Joan Baez

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony

Together, we can create a community where [all are] treated with dignity, regardless of their sex or skin color or orientation, regardless of whether their family came here on a slave ship or the Mayflower four hundred years ago or through Ellis Island at the turn of the century or from Central America last year.
Linda Chavez-Thompson

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
Maya Angelou