We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.

philosopher Aristotle: To the query, “What is a friend?” his reply was “A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. JOHN RUSKIN

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. JOSEPH CAMPBELL

A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. GEORGE ROSENBAUM

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. KAHLIL GIBRAN

Mrs. Vining. In her 1960 book Return to Japan, she wrote: The word humor, according to the Oxford Dictionary, originally meant moisture or juice and only fairly recently, that is to say from the 17th century, came to mean that quality of action, speech, or writing which excites amusement, or the faculty of perceiving what is ludicrous or amusing.