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- The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
- Bill Beattie
- Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
- Dalai Lama
- Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Trine
- As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.
- Erich Frohm
- A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
- Unknown
- You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
- Daisaku Ikeda
- Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
- Miyamoto Musashi
- We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
- Mickey Rivers
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