In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as serene wisdom; he saw no one clear path to Truth but a thousand paths to a thousand truths far-off and doubtful. ~ Ch. 2

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Norman Cousins

Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?

William Shakespeare

You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.

Jessica Watson

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Ronald Segal

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Napoleon Hill

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Sir Laurence Olivier

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Leo Tolstoy

Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.

Sorin Cerin

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Jan Carlzon

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Albert Einstein