"The door itself makes no promises. It is only a door." — Adrienne Rich, American poet, born May 16, 1929
"I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut." — Little Richard, American singer, born December 5, 1932
"Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen." — Little Richard, American singer, born December 5, 1932
"I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist." — Little Richard, American singer, born December 5, 1932
"Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere." — Keith Richards, English singer, born December 18, 1943
"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it." — Lionel Richie, American singer, born June 20, 1949
"On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise." — Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher, born February 27, 1913
"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did." — Sally Ride, American astronaut, born May 26, 1951
"I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals." — Sally Ride, Astronaut, first American woman in space, June 18, 1983
"Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep." — Jack Ridl, American poet, born 1944
"Some defeats are only installments to victory." — Jacob Riis, Danish-American photographer, born May 3, 1849
"Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." — Jacob Riis, Danish-American photographer, died May 26, 1914
"For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem of proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation." — Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet, born 1875