Education helps one cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya Angelou

I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.

Helen Keller

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman (1941 - )

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart (1929 - )

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette (1873 - 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)