Quotations From Mr. Smith 2011-2012 Throughout the year I have provided you with daily quotations.

They contain in aggregate the wisdom I have gained over the past sixty-six years. Many reflect lessons I have learned through the pain of experience. Others have come to me in a more orderly way through the joy of learning. At the core they are intended to convey the following: Education is much more than something you have to do, it is the essence of life. Learning will bring you joy and allow you to advance as a human being. You are capable of much more than you think. You can accomplish great things through careful reflective thought, planning, hard work, belief in yourself, cooperative work with others, honesty, enthusiasm and persistence and ACTION in the pursuit of your dreams. Life is meant for enjoyment. Developing a passion for the arts, music, athletics or other things you love will bring you great joy. Music is a passionate language all in itself that expresses things that cannot be expressed in any other way. I hope you will explore classical music, jazz and other forms of world music. I personally would recommend you start with Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart. Next I would learn the works of Hndel, Vivaldi, Schubert, Grieg and Dvorak. Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Corelli, Boccharelli, Torelli, Debussy, Schumann and Rachmaninov. There are many others, but these have written in a particular style that moves me like no other music. Kindness is one of the greatest gifts that we can bestow on our fellow man. It is a sign of strength rather than weakness to be kind and thoughtful towards others. Thinking of others first and helping others to succeed is one of the greatest joys that life affords. It is important to understand the function of your government and to participate. We enjoy many great rights that contribute positively to our ability to enjoy life. Some of those rights are being threatened today like never in our nations history. It is important to understand the function of government, the great wisdom of the founding fathers and the forces that drive our society in various directions. Often they are hard to identify, but today there is much information that can lead you to a better understanding. What you need to know is how to recognize the truth when you see it. While our democracy is not perfect, you do have a vote, and you can make a difference. Dont sit around and complain about things, but seek to make them better at whatever level you are able.

Knowledge and understanding begin with doubt. Following the scientific method in approaching a problem will inevitably bring you closer to the truth than any other approach. It is possible to be a scientist and still to be a romantic. The two are not mutually exclusive. Most of the great scientists were dreamers as well, passionate about science and about lifes many mysteries that do not lend themselves to scientific inquiry. Nothing is more important in life than family and friends; yet in the pursuit of the things we call success in life, we often overlook and neglect the very friendships that we should work hardest to preserve. When life-threatening events occur, it is amazing how this vision burns brightly through. Why it is so hard to see remains a mystery. Hopefully you will realize it before some crisis brings it to your attention. There are many heroes from the past and from the present. You should look early to find men and women who inspire your dreams. For starters read biography about some of the men and women who are listed on these pages. Their wisdom will astound and excite you. Finally I end with some thoughts about listening. You learn more when you listen. You fabricate and maintain good friendships by being willing to listen. It is a skill that is vastly underrated in our society, and one that you would all do well to practice. In our fast paced society, we often think what we have to say or do is more important than taking the time to listen to someone, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Ability The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Elbert Hubbard They are able because they think they are able. Vergil Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Francis Bacon Accuracy Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Charles Simmons Achievement The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. Oliver Wendell Holmes Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Samuel Johnson Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Georg Fabricius Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. Gabriel Heatter Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. James Matthew Barrie Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. Stewart E. White The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Action Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. -Pauline R. Kezer Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. Miguel de Cervantes What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. Jawaharlal Nehru The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Peter Marshall Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. William Shakespeare We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. Theodore Roosevelt Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. Daniel Webster It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Alfred North Whitehead It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Theodore Roosevelt Do what you can with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Positive anything is better than negative nothing. Elbert Hubbard I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Gilbert K. Chesterton It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Anatole France Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mahatma Gandhi The best way out is always through. Robert Frost I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. Heinrich Heine Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. William Wordsworth Its not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted Marie OConner Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face and then reach for the stars. -Joan L Curcio You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Ghandi Lose the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. Corita Kent Appearance The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. Edwin Hubbel Chapin There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. Seneca You are only what you are when no one is looking. Robert C. Edwards How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. Robert Southey When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. Richard Cardinal Cushing The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Daniel Webster Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

 Elias Root Beadle The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. William Shakespeare You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminalno one will see it. But when a button is missingeveryone sees that. Erich M. Remarque Art Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him -Franklin Delano Roosevelt All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it coexists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether his truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of various transitory forms of human society. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -Aristotle(384-322 BC) Beauty Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. Charles Reade Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson Happily may I walk May it be beautiful before me May it be beautiful behind me May it be beautiful below me May it be beautiful above me May it be beautiful all around me In beauty it is finished. Navajo prayer The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt Democracy Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -George Jean Nathan The death of a democracy is not likely to be an assassination by ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy. -Robert Maynard Hutchins. In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up

because i was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. -Martin Niemoeller. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -Bertrand Russell To correct the evils great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. -Abraham Lincoln. But it is not by the consolation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected. -Thomas Jefferson I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business. -Theodore Roosevelt Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man. -Thomas Jefferson (1783-1826) Desire By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Claude Adrien Helv tius All human activity is prompted by desire. Bertrand Russell We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. Christian Nestell Bovee Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. Edgar F. Roberts Desire is the essence of a man. Benedict Spinoza Diligence Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle Few things are impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Menander of Athens That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. William Shakespeare When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings Discovery Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. Alexander Graham Bell If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order. Edwin Hubbel Chapin What is wanted is not the will to believe but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. Bertrand Russell All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. Charles H. Parkhurst Doubt I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man. Oliver Wendell Holmes Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. William Shakespeare Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. Henry David Thoreau In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Clarence Darrow Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. George Iles We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt enters. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. H. L. Mencken Education -Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing. -Albert Einstein -It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks. -Albert Einstein -Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived a valuable gift and not as hard duty -Albert Einstein -The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship material success as a preparation for his future career. -Albert Einstein Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn the liberating influence of beauty for your own personal joy and for the profit of the community to which your later work will belong. -Albert Einstein The aim of an education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see the service to the community as their highest life achievement. -Albert Einstein The school should always have as its aim that the young person leaves it as a harmonious personality, not as a specialist. -Albert Einstein By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and

teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction of academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action. -Albert Einstein He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. James Madison Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Henry Peter Brougham Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb Only the educated are free. Epictetus Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. John Fitzgerald Kennedy The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of menthe balance-wheel of the social machinery. Horace Mann You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. Elbert Hubbard

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Education is a social process Education is growthEducation is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Thomas Jefferson Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will Durant Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. -H.G. Wells Education is the transmission of civilization -Will and Aiel Durant Energy The world belongs to the energetic. Ralph Waldo Emerson Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. Hosea Ballou The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, an invincible determination, can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller Example I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. Thomas Jefferson Example is not the main thing in lifeit is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. Amos Bronson Alcott Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. Chinese Proverb Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. Morell Kids learn more from example than anything you say. Im convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

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-Jane Pauly Experience Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Rodin Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. George Bernard Shaw I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. Abraham Lincoln One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! George Bernard Shaw Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. Vernon Saunders Law Facts A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. Claude Bernard Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. Thomas Huxley Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth. William C. Redfield We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. F. Marion Smith Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. Jawaharlal Nehru If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right. Bernard M. Baruch Failure It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt Failures are divided into two classesthose who thought and never did, and those

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who did and never thought. John Charles Salak Not failure, but low aim, is crime. James Russell Lowell The only people who never fail are those who never try. Ilka Chase Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver He's no failure. He's not dead yet. William Lloyd George Force The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. Lajos Kossuth Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. Abraham Lincoln There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. Woodrow Wilson Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. Blaise Pascal Right reason is stronger than force. James A. Garfield Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present, it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bring order into its international affairs which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do. -Albert Einstein. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley. Freedom of Speech Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial stays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. Charles Bradlaugh I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. Benjamin Franklin

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Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of health; and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast. Henry Ward Beecher I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. Woodrow Wilson We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still -John Stuart Mill(1806-1873) The only freedom deserving the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs. . . Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems greater good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. -John Stuart Mill False views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened. -Charles Darwin(1809-1882) It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. -Thomas Mann The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. . . We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression that we loathe. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Freedom of the press Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. Samuel Johnson Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights. Junius The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty. Adlai E. Stevenson Friendship Never Explainyour Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.

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 Elbert Hubbard If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. Samuel Johnson The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James F. Byrnes Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots. George Santayana People change and forget to tell each other. Lilian Hellman Genius No great genius is without an admixture of madness. Aristotle Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. Christopher Quill It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. James Russell Lowell Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedentthe power to do the right thing the first time. Elbert Hubbard One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. John Watson Foster To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all menthat is genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the

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happiness of mankind. Lord Essex Happiness The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Allan K. Chalmers Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. Scottish Proverb The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my familypublic employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. Thomas Jefferson The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim To fill the hourthat is happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt I discovered I always have choices and sometimes its only a choice of attitude. Judith M. Knowlton It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier When I am all hassled about something, I always ask myself what difference it will make in the evolution of the human species in the next ten million years, and that question always helps me to get back my perspective. Anne Wilson Schaef Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else. Dont let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truthDont let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. -Meryl Streep Hatred When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. Franois de La Rochefoucauld It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andr Gide Hatred is the madness of the heart. Lord Byron National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

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 Henry Ward Beecher I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. Booker T. Washington Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. Buddha The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity -George Bernard Shaw Heart The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. Jacques Bnigne Bossuel Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. Jean Jacques Rousseau The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. Benjamin Franklin Two things are bad for the heartrunning up stairs and running down people. Bernard M. Baruch The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. Henry Ward Beecher There is no instinct like that of the heart. Lord Byron Humor The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking ones work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. -Margot Fonteyn Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Will Rogers Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. Irvin S. Cobb Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. William Makepeace Thackeray There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree. Josh Billings Ideas Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. Morris Leopold Ernst Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. John H. Vincent

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. Alfred North Whitehead There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. Oliver Wendell Holmes The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -Chinese Proverb Individuality The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. John Stuart Mill I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. Edward Everett If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music, which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. John Stuart Mill But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger, which threatens human nature, is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. John Stuart Mill Individuality is the aim of political liberty. James Fenimore Cooper Joy Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Martin Luther King, Jr. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. Henry Fielding

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. Michel de Montaigne One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. Elbert Hubbard Joys divided are increased. Josiah Gilbert Holland Judgment One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Woodrow Wilson Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. Theodore Parker I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. First Duke of Wellington In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. Joseph Cannon When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart. Russian Proverb We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker. Dagobert D. Runes If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -Seneca(4BC-AD 65) Kindness Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. Christian Nestell Bovee The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. Washington Irving

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. Benjamin Franklin If you havent forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? Dolores Huerta Learning Since we cannot know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself. George Bernard Shaw The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. Confucius The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. Ralph Waldo Emerson Men learn while they teach. Seneca The brighter you are the more you have to learn. Don Herold Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. Lord Chesterfield He who adds not to his learning diminishes it. The Talmud A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face . . . It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. -Edward P. Morgan Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. -Aldous Huxley Logic Logic is the anatomy of thought. John Locke Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is

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compelled to surrender their logical basis. John Dewey Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. William E Gladstone Mind Few minds wear out; more rust out. Christian Nestell Bovee The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries. Everett M. Dirksen Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Quincy Adams Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky. Henry Ward Beecher The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old. Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. Franois de La Rochefoucauld The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. -Dale Carnegie. Music I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality H.A. Overstreet After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. George Szell Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. Helmut Walcha Music owes as much to Bach as religion does to its founder Robert Schumann

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I occasionally play works by contemporary composers for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Jascha Heifetz Life cant be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. William F. Buckley Mozart is the human incantation of the divine force of creation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The notes I handle no better than many pianists, but the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides! Arthur Schnabel Where words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine Without music life would be a mistake Friedrich Nietsche Chamber musica conversation between friends Catherine Drinker Bowen Originality Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. Voltaire What a good thing Adam hadwhen he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. Mark Twain The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another. Thomas Carlyle No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. Thomas Bailey Aldrich Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. Nietzsche Passion The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. Christian Nestell Bovee Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Honor de Balzac Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm. Thomas Fuller Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm -Ralph Waldo Emerson Perception Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. Hans Margolius The heart has eyes, which the brain knows nothing of. Charles H. Parkhurst All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. -Leonardo da Vinci(1452-1519) Perseverance There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. Kin Hubbard Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. Christopher Morley Power We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to human folly. Lyndon Baines Johnson The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. James Madison There is no knowledge that is not power. Ralph Waldo Emerson The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Seneca The price of greatness is responsibility. -Winston Churchill Privacy Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. Henry L. Stimson Privacy is the right to be alonethe most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. Louis D. Brandeis Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacymembers of a naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl. Edward V. Long Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Kahlil Gibran Progress The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. Charles Caleb Colton All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Edward Gibbon I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. Abraham Lincoln A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Chinese Proverb The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himtherefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. Samuel Butler Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything. . . or nothing. Lady Astor When nothing is sure, everything is possible. Margaret Drabble It is the nature of man as he grows older. . . to protest against change, particularly change for the better. -John Steinbeck

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open. Lillian Smith We trained hard. . . but every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing. . . and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing inefficiency and demoralization. -Petronius (d. AD 66) Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. _Henry Ford Question No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. Charles Steinmetz No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. George Bernard Shaw A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. Johann Kaspar Lavater Reality A theory must be tempered with reality. Jawaharlal Nehru I accept reality and dare not question it. Walt Whitman Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. Jawaharlal Nehru Reason Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. William Allen White Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. Voltaire Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it. Thomas Jefferson Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universehe has no otherand that instrument is reason. Leo Tolstoi

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Reason can in general do more than blind force. Gallus He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. William Drummond An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. James Russell Lowell Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. Benjamin Franklin Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. James Robinson Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's. Welsh Proverb Resolution The block of granite, which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Benjamin Franklin Either I will find a way, or I will make one. Philip Sidney There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. -Henry VanDyke Science A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck Science is simply common sense at its bestthat is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. Edward Teller Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. Albert Einstein Theory Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an

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ugly fact. Thomas Huxley A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. Cadman I never once made a discovery I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. Thomas A. Edison A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. Ed Howe In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. Thomas Huxley Thought To achieve, you need thought. . . You have to know what you are doing and thats real power. Ayn Rand Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. Christian Nestell Bovee To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. Henry David Thoreau Learning without thought is labor lost. Confucius Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. Henry David Thoreau You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen Truth The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. James Russell Lowell Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau The truth is more important than the facts. Frank Lloyd Wright Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. Mark Twain When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. Otto von Bismarck

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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. Charles Caleb Colton The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. Gilbert K. Chesterton Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. William Cullen Bryant Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. Jean Rostand If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Winston Churchill It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said. Sam Rayburn A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is. -Jack Miner Understanding There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. Charles F. Kettering The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. -Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms. -Aristotle (384-322 BC) Vision Where there is no vision a people perish. Ralph Waldo Emerson You see things and you say "Why?" but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. Louis L. Mann The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. Edward H. Harriman Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall Wisdom The great thing about getting older is that you dont lose all the other ages youve been Madeline LEngle The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. Nicolas Boileau-Despr aux Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. Theodore Roosevelt That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. John Stuart Mill Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. John Patrick Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mahatma Gandhi One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. John Kenneth Galbraith When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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 Mark Twain The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. Euripides Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Felix Frankfurter It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Franois de La Rochefoucauld Ten commandments of good listening: 1. STOP TALKING: You cannot listen if you are talking. POLONIUS [Hamlet]: "Give every man thine ear, but few thv voice. " 2. PUT THE TALKER AT EASE: Help him or her feel that he or she is free to talk. This is often called a permissive environment. 3. SHOW THE TALKER THAT YOU WANT TO LISTEN: Look and act interested. Do not read your mail while he talks. Listen to understand rather than to oppose. 4. REMOVE DISTRACTIONS: Don 't doodle, tap, or shuffle papers. Will it be quieter if you shut the door? Turn off the television. 5. 6. EMPATHIZE WITH THE TALKER: BE PATIENT: Try to put yourself in his place so that you can see his or her point of view. Allow plenty of time. Do not interrupt. Don 't start for the door or walk away. 7. HOLD YOUR TEMPER: An angry listener gets the wrong meaning from words. 8. GO EASY ON ARGUMENT AND CRITICISM: This puts the speaker on the defensive. He or she may "clam up" or get angry. Don 't argue; even if you win, you lose. 9. ASK QUESTIONS: This encourages the speaker and shows you are listening. It helps to develop points further. 10. STOP TALKING: This is first and last, because all other commandments depend on it. You just can't do a good listening job while you are talking. Nature gave man two ears but only one tongue, which is a gentle hint that he should listen more than he talks.

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How to live your life (Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture. Dream Big The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt Earnest is better than Hip-Fashion is unimportant. Clothes dont make a person. You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminalno one will see it. But when a button is missingeveryone sees that. Erich M. Remarque Raising the White Flag-dont sweat the small stuff. Capitulating on things that really make no difference will prevent you from destroying valued relationships. Make Contracts with others to get what you both want. Dont complain, just work harder. When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. -Pauline R. Kezer Treat the disease and not the symptom. Dont obsess over what people think. To work well in groups Meet people properly Find things you have in common Try for optimal meeting conditions Let everyone talk Check egos at the door Praise each other Phrase alternatives as questions Look for the best in everybody Watch what they do, not what they say What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke Dance with the one who brung you. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity Seneca

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The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon Whether you think you can or cant youre right They are able because they think they are able. Vergil Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play Be the first penguin Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face and then reach for the stars. -Joan L Curcio Get peoples attention The lost art of thank-you notes Loyalty is a two-way street The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Friday night solution-work harder Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison Show Gratitude Send out thin mints All you have is what you bring with you Do what you can with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt A Bad Apology is worse than no apology Tell the truth Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. William Cullen Bryant Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Charles Simmons We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time. F. Marion Smith No job is beneath you Never give up There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. Kin Hubbard

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Be a communitarian The aim of an education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see the service to the community as their highest life achievement. -Albert Einstein All you have to do is ask Make a Decision: Tigger or Eeyore Positive anything is better than negative nothing. Elbert Hubbard I discovered I always have choices and sometimes its only a choice of attitude. Judith M. Knowlton Be optimistic but realistic Surround yourself with friends, family and faith

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