"Children need models rather than critics."

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

"He taught me that one's worth as an individual lies only in your action."
~ Fali Balsara, about Mahatma Gandhi

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Let the good in me
connect with the good
in others,
until all the world
is transformed through
the compelling power
of love."

-Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

"The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere.
They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts."

-- Anatole France

"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know."

-- Joseph Conrad

"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time."
~ Albert Einstein

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

-- Chinese proverb

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

-- Jack London

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable."
~ Albert Einstein

"Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery...It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man."

-- Passage from Life of Christ

"The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man."

-- W. Russell Bowie

"Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good".
- Buddha

"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance."

-- Frank Knox

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will."

-- J.C.F. von Schiller

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

-- Paul Goodman

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
~ Ghandi

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

-- Charles Du Bos

"Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size."

~Albert Einstein