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Care more than others think wise;
Risk more than others think safe;
Dream more than others think practical;
Expect more than others think possible.


I have learnt that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful
- John Constable

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
-Michel De Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

The superior man must be watchful over himself when he is alone
- Confucius

“We must find the courage to leave our temples”, Ghosananda insisted, “and enter the suffering-filled temples of human experience.”
-- Preah Maha Ghosananda (The Gandhi of Cambodia)

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Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
-Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman and reformer (1829-1906)

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
-Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
-Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

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Words are things; and a small drop of ink /
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces /
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
-Lord Byron, (1788-1824)

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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
-Oliver Herford, writer and illustrator (1863-1935)


I've learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you. But if you focus on your family, the needs of others, your work, meeting new people, and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you.
Age 65

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Be like the bird, who halting in his flight /
On limb too slight, /
Feels it give way beneath him, yet sings /
Knowing he has wings.
-Victor Hugo, writer (1802-1885)

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A half-truth is a whole lie.
-Yiddish proverb

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You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
-Ronald Searle, artist (1920- )

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We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.
-Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-Salvador Dali, painter (1904-1989)


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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
-Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965)