“You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!”

 -Sasha Azevedo

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

-- David Viscott

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

-- Lao Tzu

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

- Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion."

~ Veteran reporter John Lawton, speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995

"You teach best what you most need to learn." 


Richard Bach

"Teaching is a difficult profession. Artful teaching has a short shelf life that is not always respected by unions or the granters of tenure. Former libertine artists can be persuaded, as teachers, to cling for dear life to security. I recommend teaching contracts of no more than five years. Much less if the flame is burning low. The widespread practice of impassive teaching quells student curiosity and hatches dullards. Teachers need to be learners."


Robert Genn

"Genuine security arises from actual, first-hand knowledge that one is both capable and worthy of achieving happiness (through conscious, responsible action) and, once having attained it, that he deserves it."

-- Michael J. Hurd

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live." 
~ Vincent Van Gogh

"Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose.  Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

-- Aristotle

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving."
-Albert Einstein

"Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"

-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."


-Mother Teresa

"To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant, because you're always going agains the conformity of the group. 

Heroes are ordinary people whose social action is Extra-Ordinary who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism."

~ Philip Zimbardo

"Some people say that dreaming gets you nowhere in life. But I say you
can't get anywhere in life without dreaming."

-- Rose Zadra

“How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service” 


~ Charles Darwin

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."


~Robert Frost