- Mahatma Gandhi

Some say, after we have mastered the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

- French Jesuit philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. As quoted in Dr Fulford's "Touch of Life", 1996

What is to give light must endure burning.

- Viktor Frankl

Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe.

- Socrates

To know others is wisdom, to know oneself is enlightenment.

- Tao Te Ching

We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

- Albert Einstein

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

- Buddha

I am not young enough to know everything

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

When the student is ready- the lesson appears.

- Gene Oliver

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

- Princess Diana

Kindness in words creates confidence Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love.

- LAO-TZU

It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

- Mahatma Gandhi

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

- Ivan Turgenev

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

- Plato (427-347 BC)

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

- Liz Smith

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve. I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey... I asked for health, that I might do great things. I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that I might be happy. I was given poverty, that I might be wise. I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. I was given life, that I might enjoy all things... I got nothing I asked for -- but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among men, most richly blessed!

- Roy Campanella

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours

- Richard Bach

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

- Moliere

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

- William Arthur Ward

The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Unknown

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.

- Victor Frankl

Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if it is open.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use

- Galileo Galilei

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws

- Plato

Men have become the tools of their tools

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun: and the two are never far apart.

- Charles Caleb Colton

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith

- John Foster Dulles

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives

- Abba Eban

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

The graveyards are full of indispensable men

- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe

- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

- Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)

The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am 75 and yet not ever truly to have lived.

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch; may you stand tall as the Redwood, live gracefully as the willow; and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.

- Native American prayer