We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Marcelene Cox

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Paul Harris

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

William Ellery Channing

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Elisabeth KublerRoss

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Salvador Dali

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.

Aldous Huxley

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

William J. Clinton

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?

John Green

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I think we're in trouble if people don't stop thinking everything that's going wrong is due to accidental opinions.

James Dye

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.

Kurt Vonnegut