No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.
--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English aristocrat and writer, chiefly remembered for her letterwriting. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu


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Leonardo once commented after discovering a cave on the slopes of Mount Etna, “I bent down first on one side and then on the other to see if I could perceive anything, but the thick darkness rendered this impossible; and after having remained there some time, two things arose within me, fear and desire—fear of the dark and threatening cave, desire to see whether there were anything marvelous within.”

--Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, writer. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

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Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed, and then discovering the brakes are out of order.
--Maggie Scarf, author and visiting fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University. More at www.maggiescarf.com


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Who am I to judge another
When I walk imperfectly?

In the quiet heart is hidden
Sorrow that the eye can’t see.

I would be my brother’s keeper;
I would learn the healer’s art.

To the wounded and the weary
I would show a gentle heart.

--extracted from the lyrics of LORD, I WOULD FOLLOW THEE, by Susan Evans McCloud (1945-), American novelist, author, poet, hymnwriter. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Evans_McCloud


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If I had to name one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy-one.”

--Richard M. DeVos (1926-), American businessman, co-founder of Amway. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_DeVos


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Trees, like almost all living organisms, need light to survive and to thrive. They will do all in their power to soak in as much sunlight as possible to promote photosynthesis—the process of converting light energy into chemical energy, or the “fuel” used by living organisms. This is analogous to people’s needs for physical, intellectual, and spiritual light. Please, shun darkness and, like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.
--paraphrased from Marlin K. Jensen (1942-), American lawyer and religious leader.

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible—and achieve it, generation after generation.
--Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winning author who, until 1934, spent most of her time in China. More at http://en.wikipedial.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
--St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), Italian Catholic friar and preacher, founder of the Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of St. Francis. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi



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Please all and you please none.
--Aesop (620 BC – 564 BC), Greek fabulist who is credited with many fables. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop


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If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.
--Jonathan Winters (1925-), American comedian. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Winters


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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
--Thomas James (1573-1629), English born first librarian of the Bodelian Library at Oxford. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_James


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