Good Example is Followed

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." - Amelia Earhart

I Still Have a Dream

"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

Inborn Sense of Wonder

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."

- Rachel Carson

Fathers and Sons

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.” - quote from the film, "Love Actually"

from Nature

"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration."

- Claude Monet

Say It Hot

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930

Go Where I've Never Been

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."
- Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971)

Personal Legend

"You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love" - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

A Caterpillar

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller

The Idea Is...

“The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.”

- Bill Russell

Paradise in a Few Years

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."

- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Can Do

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

Life is Sunshine

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. " - Thomas Jefferson

More Luck

""I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Sympathetic with the Striving

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver