"There are two ways of exerting one's strength one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." -Booker T. Washington
"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing." -William Butler Yeats
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." -Confucius
"We've discovered the secret of life." -Francis Crick
"Bluntness is a virtue." -Allison Ling
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it" -Albert Einstein
"We cannot change yesterday, we can only make the most of today and look with hope toward tomorrow." -Unknown
"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business." -Henry David Thoreau
"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak." -Toni Morrison
"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food." -Dorothy Gilman