"Behind every advance of the human race is a germ of creation growing in the mind of some lone individual, and individual whose dreams waken him in the night while others contentedly sleep." ~ Crawford H. Greenewalt

"It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive." ~ Gregory David Roberts

"One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works." ~ Meister Eckhart

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. " ~ Anne Lamott

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better." ~ Lewis Thomas

"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them." ~ Frank Moore Colby

"Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world." ~ Archbishop Helder Camara

"A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy." ~ Dan Rather

"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems." ~ James Cash Penney

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." ~ Golda Meir

"If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too." ~ Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought." ~ Agnes Repplier