"The Lord created me at the beginning of his work . . . and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race." Proverbs 8:22, 30-31
"Come, come, whoever you are,/ Wanderer, idolater, worshiper of fire,/ Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times,/Come, and come yet again./ Ours is not a caravan of despair." Rumi
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." Anais Nin
"Today many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble." Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic
"There is no scientific antidote [to the atomic bomb], only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education." Albert Einstein, Nobel Peace Prize physicist
"The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one." Brooks Atkinson
"The world is at a critical juncture, and so are you . . . Go ahead and make your plans . . . and don't stop learning. But be open to the detours that lead to new discoveries." Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever does." Margaret Mead
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests." John Stuart Mill
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen." Dame Rebecca West
"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill
"The great feature of poverty is the fact that it annihilates the future." George Orwell
"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
"The very idea that there is another idea is something gained." Richard Jeffries
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." Alfred North Whitehead
"Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child." Cicero
