There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

Alan Wilson Watts

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Orison Swett Marden

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Benjamin Franklin

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

Gautama Buddha

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

Mark Twain

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

Horace Traubel

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead!In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility:But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger.

William Shakespeare

Behold the Child among his new-born blissesA six years' Darling of a pigmy size!See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,With light upon him from his father's eyes!See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,Some fragment from his dream of human life,Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.

William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimat

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Mark Twain