Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain

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I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner

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Good morning! Rise and shine! It’s a new day full of endless possibilities and opportunities.

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. ― Karl Marx

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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

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get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day. – Paul Henderson

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You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ― George Lorimer

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I always entertain great hopes. -Robert Frost

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Every morning is a fresh beginning — a chance to do something different. – Alice Walker

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