| EDUCATION |
| "The covers of this book are too far apart." -Ambrose Bierce |
| "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." -J. Bronowski |
| "When professors want your opinion, they'll give it to you." |
| "We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history." |
| "Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." -G.M. Trevelyan |
| WISDOM |
| "These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." -Vernon Cooper |
| In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things love. |
| "We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are." -Talmudic Saying |
| "We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect." -Henry David Thoreau |
| "When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package." -John Ruskin |
| "Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings." -Alice Miller |
| "Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." -Max L. Forman |
| "Modern man thinks he loses something--time--when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it." -Erich Fromm |
| "The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." -Gen. Omar Bradley |
| "Conscience is the inner voice warning us that someone may be looking." -H.L. Mencken |
| "In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place." -Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." -G. H. Hardy |
| WORDS |
| "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away." -Arthur Helps (1813-1875) |
| "The cruelest lies are often told in silence." -Robert Louis Stevenson |
| "Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." -Gertrude B. Stein |
| What you are speaks so loud, I cannot hear what you are saying. |
| INDIVIDUALITY |
| Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you. |
| "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." -Abraham Maslow |
| "I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live." -Francoise Sagan |
| "Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best." -Henry Van Dyke |
| "I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me." -Mark Twain |
| Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. |
| BEAUTY |
| "In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty." -Christopher Morley |
| Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. |
| "Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward." -Jim Hamilton |
| God respects us when we work and loves us when we sing. |
| FAITH |
| "Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone." -Roy R. Gilson |
| "The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief." -Frank Barron |
| "The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics." -Albert Einstein |
| "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." -C.S.Lewis |
| LOVE |
| "To love a person means to see him as God intended him to be." -Dostoyevsky |
| "If I love you, what business is it of yours?" -Goethe |
| Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. |
| FAILURE |
| "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works." -William Strong |
| Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness that precedes the dawning of the day of success. |
| PAIN |
| "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." -C.S. Lewis |
| "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." -Seneca |
| "Our sincerest laughter \ With some pain is fraught; \ Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." -Shelley |
| "There never was night that had no morn." -Dinah Mulock Craik |
| "Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, \ And there are words not made with lungs." -Crashaw |
| LISTENING |
| Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." -American Indian Proverb |
| If people listened to themselves more often, they would talk less. |
| "Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken." -Orson Rega Card |
| "Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy?" -Jackson Browne [P.S. I Love You] |
| HAPPINESS |
| "Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) |
| "I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." -Elbert Hubbard |
| "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." -Dennis Wholey |
| It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. |
| "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." -Samuel Johnson |
| THOUGHT |
| "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." -Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) |
| "The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language." -J. Michael Straczynski |
| "Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure." -Victor Hugo |
| "Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active." -Leonardo da Vinci |
| "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." -Oscar Levant |
| "To use the mind as it's all too commonly used, on the kinds of things that it's usually used on, is about as inefficient and inappropriate as using a magic sword to open up a can of beans." -Benjamin Hoff |
| "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem." -G.K. Chesterton |
| "A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts." -Herbert V. Prochnow |
| "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." -Henri Bergson |
| ACTION |
| "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour." -Robert L. Stevenson |
| "Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please." -Benjamin Franklin |
| "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence." -Samuel Johnson |
| The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished. |
| "It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." -Moliere |
| "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." -Richard Bach |
| "The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone." -Stella, Lady Reading |
| "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." -John Ruskin |
| CHANGE |
| "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." -Nelson Mandela [A Long Walk to Freedom] |
| "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -Leo Tolstoy |
| "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." -Galbraith's Law |
| "Better is the enemy of good." Voltaire |
| "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." -Thomas Edison |
| "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -Jackson Browne [P.S. I Love You] |
| INITIATIVE |
| "One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." -Wayne Gretzky |
| "If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes." -Bob Edwards |
| "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -Seneca |
| "The impossible is often the untried." -Jim Goodwin |
| TRUTH |
| "I never said it was possible. I only said it was true." -Charles Richet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology |
| "Is this true or only clever?" -Augustine Birrell |
| "The worst of all deceptions is self-deception." -Plato |
| "I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake." -Bob Hudson |
| CHARITY |
| "Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good." -Albert Schweitzer |
| "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." -Seneca |
| "This is the final test of the gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him." -William Lyon Phelps |
| "The deeds you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today." -St. Francis of Assisi |
| "We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves." -John Buchan (1875-1940) Scottish author |
| "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." -Arthur Ashe |
| LIFE |
| "May you live all the days of your life." -Jonathan Swift |
| "Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life." -Germaine Greer |
| Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. |
| It's not a matter of where you stand but in what direction you're headed. |
| Don't count the days, make the days count. |
| "Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." -Mark Twain |
| "Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped." -last words of Groucho Marx |
| HUMOR |
| A good pun is its own reword. |
| "These are the tries that time men's soles." -Heard at a track meet |
| The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected. |
| "No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded." -Yogi Berra |
| Some people would not recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head. |
| "critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him." -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) [The Devil's Dictionary] |
| Reputation: what others are not thinking about you. |
| "Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do." -Raymond Mortimer |
| "I had a couple requests, but I'm gonna play anyway." -Billy Sprague, songwriter |
| Someday you will get your big chance--or have you already had it? |