"The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man."
- Cicero

"Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all."
- Juvenal

"Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous."
- Abd-el-Kadar

"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old."
- Lord Chesterfield

"If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?"
- Lord Chesterfield

"Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong."
- William Thackeray

"He that will not reflect is a ruined man."
- Asian Proverb

“The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!”
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"God ever works with those who work with will."
- Aeschylus

"Insist on yourself. Never imitate."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out."
- James Bryant Conant

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass."
- Paul J. Meyer

"Heaven never helps the man who will not act."
- Sophocles

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
- Aristotle

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them make them."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others."
- Jim Rohn

"Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to try to ease the trauma of transition."
- Alvin Toffler