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- All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.
- North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
- Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
- Hans Margolius
- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
- Anonymous
- If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
- Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
- Bergen Evans
- Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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