“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” — Lee Maynard

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” — Henry Beston

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“Courage and grace are a formidable mixture …” — Marlene Dietrich

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” — Mary Oliver

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker

“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.” — Katharine Hepburn

“He that can have patience can have what he will.” — Benjamin Franklin

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” — David Brinkley

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Bruce Lee

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” — John Wooden