"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness."
~ Seneca

"To accomplish great things we must not only dream, but act."
~ Bill Blackman

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
-- Robert Browning

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great
temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the
real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being
decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you
shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made
except by a steady, long continued process."
-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read
some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week."
-- Charles Darwin

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them
master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or
architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
-- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Writer

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

(on the purpose of art):
"... A human activity having for its purpose the transmission of the
highest and best feelings to which men have risen."
-- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)