“Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”

Albert Camus

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

Orison Swett Marden

“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.”

Marva Collins

“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”

Dante Alighieri

“If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.”

Jacques Cousteau

“Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.”

Pauline R. Kezer

“Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become ‘second nature’…

“It doesn’t come by accident. It comes through the self-discipline required to do anything in life really well—to learn a musical instrument, to mend a tractor, to give a lecture, to run an orphanage. Or, indeed, to live as a wise human being.”

N.T. Wright

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

Anonymous

“I accept life unconditionally. … Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.”

Arthur Rubinstein