"We have not inherited the world from our forefathers -- we have borrowed it from our children."
- Kashmiri proverb
"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes." Kenneth Hildebrand-
“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” - Robert Francis Kennedy & George Bernard Shaw
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings." — Helen Keller
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"It's our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." — Albus Dumbledore (JKR-Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets Book 2
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
— Helen Keller
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." — Helen Keller
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." — Helen Keller
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer
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