“It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen; this law is universal to the whole human race.”

Seneca the Elder, orator

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

Sir Claus Moser, statistician

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley, journalist, newscaster

“The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.”

Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist,
evolutionary biologist, and historian of science

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

E.M. Forster,writer

“I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me — I always feel that they have not said enough.”

– Mark Twain, humorist and writer

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president

“If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments … the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

George Washington, first US president

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.”

-Washington Irving, Writer

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

Robert Hughes, art critic.