Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.
-Lech Walesa,
human rights activist, Polish president, Nobel laureate
(b. 1943)

Hope is a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness of all
- Samuel Johnson

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-Abraham Lincoln,
16th U.S. President
(1809-1865)

We judge a mans wisdom by his hope.
- Emerson

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
-Jules Renard,
writer (1864-1910)

If you're not making mistakes, you're not working on problems that are
hard enough, and that's a BIG mistake!
-Wilsec

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
-Bertrand Russell,
philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate
(1872-1970)

Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings
called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with
such things as crawl upon earth.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
(1869-1948)

All men -- whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or
Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans -- have
obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their
sovereign societies.
-Norman Cousins,
author, editor, journalist and professor
(1915-1990)

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
-Michael Pollan,
author, journalism professor (b. 1955)

Laughter is not always the best medicine, but sometimes its a GREAT disguise!
-Twq

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do
not preserve myself.
-Jose Ortega Y Gasset,
philosopher and essayist (1883-1955)

"Be miserable or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, its your choice." - Wayne Dyer

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear
conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way
to usefulness and high achievement.

-- Grover Cleveland