The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.

Mao Zedong

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

Bjorn Lomborg

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Alexander Jackson Davis

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Friedrich von Schiller

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.

Chico Xavier

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(Purkey credits his leadership characteristics to these threee events) http://www.elmle.org/CopenhagenSpeakers.htm http://www.invitationaleducation.net/

William W. Purkey

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Hippocrates

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Christopher Columbus

Choose people who lift you up.

Michelle Obama

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound