"Think of mean people like sand paper. They may scratch you and hurt you, but at the end, you come out smooth and polished and the mean person is just worn and ugly."

"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."

-- Joshua L. Liebman

“Life loves to taken by the lapel and told: I am with you kid. Let’s go.”

~Maya Angelou

"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. "

-- Calvin Coolidge

"Each time a piece goes out, I start on a new piece, so there is renewal after renewal. It's like picking a flower: Each time you pick one, a new one blooms."

~ Sam Maloof

"There is a communion between an object maker and the material he is working with. And there is a triune between the object maker, his material and his client. And then there is something much greater, that transcends into God the creator of all things, who uses our hands as his tools to make these beautiful objects...Ego destroys."

~ Sam Maloof 1916-2009

"Full lasting is the song, though he, the singer, passes."
~George Meredith

"There is no companion that is as companionable as solitude."

(Henry David Thoreau)

"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."

-- David Viscott

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

-- John F. Kennedy

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

~Carl Jung

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

-- Lao Tzu

"They know enough who know how to learn."

~Henry Brooks Adams

"In the end, it's not the space that counts, but the life you live in it."

"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day. While life is not always fair, it is manageable. It's a matter of attitude and confidence."
~Mario Andretti

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and
in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial
sense that life is miracle and magic.

-- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)

"One of the great things any community can do is not teach tolerance, but live tolerance, not talk respect but live inclusivity"

- Michael Pritchard