"Before I was a genius I was a drudge."
- Ignace Jan Paderewski
"Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor the best opportunities they will never come."
- Janet Erskine Stuart
"I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled And made me in these Christian days A happy Christian child."
- Jane Taylor
"The king reigns but does not govern."
- Jan Zamoyski
"People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives."
- Jane Rule
"Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character."
- Jane Seymour
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
- Jane Austen
"Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay when it strikes on a kindred heart like the converged light on a mirror it reflect..."
- Jane Porter
"Happiness is not perfected until it is shared."
"Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality we can still be inn..."
- Jane Howard