Laura Bratty

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
― Maya Angelou

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West