There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

~ Plato

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

~ Carl Jung