To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
— often attributed to Emerson, an adaptation of a 1905 poem by Bessie Stanley

A true education is the personal exploration of a subject, not the dull recitation of facts.
— John Byrne

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
— Michelangelo

Little is the number that think with their own mind and feel with their own heart.
— Albert Einstein

You are not in the world all alone. Your friends are here, too.
— Albert Schweitzer, upon receiving the Nobel Prize

If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back the soonest is the most progressive man.
— C.S. Lewis