Darrell J. Pursiful

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
—C. S. Lewis

It is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which “escape” is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
—J. R. R. Tolkien

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
—Henry van Dyke