We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.

Tony Buzan

There is only one universal passion fear.

George Bernard Shaw

Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Ambrose Bierce

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness

Thomas Jefferson

A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Alexander Maclaren

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Jane Austen

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer