You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. -Irish Proverb

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough. -Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, dramatist and novelist (1688-1763)

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. -

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 192

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. -José Martí, revolutionary and poet (1853-1895)

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885)