• “The all-important question still remains: By what spirit are our schools animated? D ..." {Read more}
Author: Horace Mann (lawyer/politician/educator)
Subject: Education, Diversity & Public Policy

• “When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is ..." {Read more}
Author: George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of ..." {Read more}
Author: John Cheever (author), "The Wapshot Chronicle"
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either darin ..." {Read more}
Author: Helen Keller (author)
Subject: Change & Risk

• My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast. ..." {Read more}
Author: Miguel de Unamuno (writer/philosopher)
Subject: Leadership & Power

• “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of th ..." {Read more}
Author: T.E. Lawrence (soldier/author)
Subject: Change & Risk

• But an open heart is a currency so rare that not many recognize it as an acceptable f ..." {Read more}
Author: Daniel Wallace (author), "One Small Man"
Subject: Love, Friendship & Sex

• “An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky (neurobiologist)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am ..." {Read more}
Author: Elbert Hubbard (salesman/craftsman/author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Architects should strive to create a work of architecture where the floor is the ear ..." {Read more}
Author: Richard England (architect, 1902-1970)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "In baiting a mouse trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse." ..." {Read more}
Author: Saki (poet)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Battlelines harden when progress has been made.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Delwin Roy, president, The Hitachi Foundation
Subject: Change & Risk

• This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, gi ..." {Read more}
Author: Walt Whitman (poet), preface to first issue of "Leaves of Grass" (1855)
Subject: Writing, Art, Music & Poetry

• "Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath ..." {Read more}
Author: Michael Caine (actor)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Beauty is the chance meeting, on an operating table, of a sewing machine and an umbr ..." {Read more}
Author: Surrealist dictum
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of al ..." {Read more}
Author: Albert Einstein (physicist)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "The enthusiasm to talk about the things we barely understand can threaten the very b ..." {Read more}
Author: Mark Matousek (writer)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Robert Lynd (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself. ..." {Read more}
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (educator/author)
Subject: Death & Depression

• If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on ..." {Read more}
Author: Isaac Asimov (scientist/author)
Subject: Religion & Spirituality

• “Why should we punish each other with scorn as if to have a large ass were worse th ..." {Read more}
Author: Marge Piercy (poet), from “What are big girls made of?”
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuab ..." {Read more}
Author: ee cummings (poet)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." ..." {Read more}
Author: James Thurber (author/cartoonist)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ..." {Read more}
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (abolitionist/novelist)
Subject: Death & Depression

• "When shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy; neither ignora ..." {Read more}
Author: Thomas Paine (author/political theorist), “The Rights of Man” (1791)
Subject: Leadership & Power

• “The Boy Scout movement is a call to American boys to become, in spirit, members of t ..." {Read more}
Author: Handbook for Boys (1911), the first Boy Scout Handbook
Subject: Education, Diversity & Public Policy

• “If one has a broken heart. One is then quick to recognize it in others.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Helen Waddell (author/poet)
Subject: Love, Friendship & Sex

• “I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Will Rogers (author/humorist)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "Today, more than ever, it is critical for American citizens to understand the differ ..." {Read more}
Author: Robert F. Kennedy (attorney/author/environmentalist)
Subject: Leadership & Power

• “It’s not the load that breaks you down —- it’s the way you carry it.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Change & Risk

• “The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and c ..." {Read more}
Author: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (minister/civil rights leader)
Subject: Change & Risk

• Change is a short-term, external, situational event to which people must react, whera ..." {Read more}
Author: Donna Stickland (nurse/author)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Author unknown
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Desiderius Erasmus (philosopher)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “The rich tend to identify themselves with a sum of money and by so doing they relinq ..." {Read more}
Author: Lewis H. Lapham (magazine editor)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• Classrooms are powerful places. They can be the sites of numbing boredom and degrada ..." {Read more}
Author: Mike Rose (educator/author), "Possible Lives"
Subject: Education, Diversity & Public Policy

• “To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.” ..." {Read more}
Author: James Baldwin (author), The Fire Next Time
Subject: Change & Risk

• "We need to find out if our common sense is indeed common or uncommon." ..." {Read more}
Author: Connie Spinner (educator)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. ..." {Read more}
Author: Victor Hugo (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “By conforming to the norm, you perpetuate the norm.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Alex Vasquez (writer)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. (Others ..." {Read more}
Author: Harper Lee (author), To Kill a Mockingbird
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “There is no finality in architecture, only continuous change.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Walter Gropius (architect, 1883-1969)
Subject: Change & Risk

• "The human race benefits when there is controversy and suffers when there is none." ..." {Read more}
Author: Pete Seeger (folk singer/labor organizer)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “A great part of courage is having done the thing before.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Ruth Gordon (actress)
Subject: Change & Risk

• "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." ..." {Read more}
Author: ee cummings (poet)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear ..." {Read more}
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (philosopher)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.” ..." {Read more}
Author: John Stuart Mill (philosopher)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Robert F. Kennedy (former U.S. Attorney General)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “If you have never, all alone, tried to define your major convictions, you cannot ent ..." {Read more}
Author: Glenn Tinder (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire ..." {Read more}
Author: Madame de Stael (writer)
Subject: Love, Friendship & Sex

• “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be ..." {Read more}
Author: William Jennings Bryan (attorney/former US Supreme Court Justice)
Subject: Change & Risk

• So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one a ..." {Read more}
Author: Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation
Subject: Death & Depression

• “Money is something we trade our life energy for. ...I have learned this, at least, f ..." {Read more}
Author: Henry David Thoreau (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "Don't talk unless you can improve upon silence." ..." {Read more}
Author: New England saying
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Edward Abbey (author/naturalist)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a ..." {Read more}
Author: Jesse Jackson (civil rights leader)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “I've learned that the person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all ..." {Read more}
Author: Anonymous, age 51, from “Live & Learn & Pass It On”
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "The rapturous, wild and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense." ..." {Read more}
Author: Henry Sambrooke Leigh (author)
Subject: Drinking & Debauchery

• "Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain or a ..." {Read more}
Author: Charles Lindbergh (aviator and explorer)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “Never eat more than you can lift.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Miss Piggy (actress/singer)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "People who eat white bread have no dreams." ..." {Read more}
Author: Diana Vreeland (designer & fashion editor)
Subject: Change & Risk

• The education of our children is a matter of life and death. ..." {Read more}
Author: Colin Powell (soldier/statesman)
Subject: Education, Diversity & Public Policy

• There is no easy way to create a world...where all children receive as much education ..." {Read more}
Author: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (preacher/civil rights leader)
Subject: Education, Diversity & Public Policy

• We will not successfully restructure schools to be effective until we stop seeing div ..." {Read more}
Author: Grant Wiggins (author/educator)
Subject: Education, Diversity & Public Policy

• “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. ..." {Read more}
Author: Jorge Luis Borges (author/poet)
Subject: Love, Friendship & Sex

• “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear —not absence of fear.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Mark Twain (author)
Subject: Change & Risk

• "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total ..." {Read more}
Author: Frank Herbert (author), Dune
Subject: Death & Depression

• “One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageou ..." {Read more}
Author: Henry Miller (author, 1891-1980)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Not until we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin ..." {Read more}
Author: Henry David Thoreau (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Robert M. Pirsig (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Oscar Levant (pianist)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (philosopher)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Climate is a term used to describe how people feel about their school. It is a combi ..." {Read more}
Author: Jim Sweeney (author/educator)
Subject: Education, Diversity & Public Policy

• “For no matter what I have seen in my life, the war, hunger, misery, broken promises, ..." {Read more}
Author: Neal Pollack (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us ..." {Read more}
Author: Florence Scovel Shinn (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "Life begets life. Energy creates energy, It is by spending oneself that one becomes ..." {Read more}
Author: Sarah Bernhardt (actress)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “What is to give light must endure burning.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Viktor Frankl (psychiatrist/Holocaust survivor)
Subject: Change & Risk

• "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ..." {Read more}
Author: Catherine Aird (English writer)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for ..." {Read more}
Author: Martha Washington (former First Lady)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. ..." {Read more}
Author: Ranier Maria Rilke (poet/author), "Letters to a Young Poet" (letter #8)
Subject: Death & Depression

• “Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a person does not know what harbor ..." {Read more}
Author: Seneca (philosopher)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again." ..." {Read more}
Author: William Shakespeare (playwright/poet), Hamlet, Act I, Scene II
Subject: Death & Depression

• “I had a heritage, rich and nearer than the tongue which gave it voice. My mind resou ..." {Read more}
Author: Maya Angelou (author), The Heart of a Woman
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cea ..." {Read more}
Author: Buddha
Subject: Death & Depression

• “If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our ..." {Read more}
Author: Nikki Giovanni (poet)
Subject: Change & Risk

• "It is always the secure who are humble." ..." {Read more}
Author: G.K. Chesterton (essayist/author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly...waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Mohammed Ali (boxer/civil rights leader)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. ..." {Read more}
Author: Daniel Boone (pioneer/explorer)
Subject: Leadership & Power

• I wake hollow as a thighbone with its marrow picked out. ..." {Read more}
Author: Donald Hall (poet), "Secrets"
Subject: Death & Depression

• “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Mark Twain (author/political satirist)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own sufferin ..." {Read more}
Author: Robert Lynd (author)
Subject: Death & Depression

• “One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibilit ..." {Read more}
Author: P.J. O’Rourke (political humorist/writer)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “(T)here were those who…were addicted to something she thought of as the Infilling; t ..." {Read more}
Author: Richard Price (author), "Runner"
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "Infinite patience brings immediate results." ..." {Read more}
Author: Wayne Dyer (motivational expert)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "I'm looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what can't be ..." {Read more}
Author: Henry Ford (automaker/philanthropist)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “The corn is never found innocent in the court of chickens.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Finnish proverb
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." ..." {Read more}
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Indian civil rights leader/statesman)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “Inspiration enters at the border between hard work and laziness.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Lu Juren (poet)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not ..." {Read more}
Author: Vladimir Nabokov (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells diss ..." {Read more}
Author: Thomas Jefferson (U.S. President/diplomat),
Subject: Leadership & Power

• “You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Henry J. Kaiser (industrialist/philanthropist)
Subject: Change & Risk

• So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, la ..." {Read more}
Author: Ranier Maria Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet"
Subject: Death & Depression

• "Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it." ..." {Read more}
Author: Indian proverb
Subject: Change & Risk

• “Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hard ..." {Read more}
Author: Tennessee Williams (playwright)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Elizabeth Kenny (nurse)
Subject: Change & Risk

• "No one would listen to you if they didn't know it was their turn next." ..." {Read more}
Author: Edgar Watson Howe (editor/novelist)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essenti ..." {Read more}
Author: Henry David Thoreau (author), Walden, 1854, Chapter V-“Solitude”
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Formerly, when you awoke in the morning and saw the sun rise and prepared to face yo ..." {Read more}
Author: Jonathan Schell (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “When people get on the train, they bring their fatigue, fears, and enthusiasms along ..." {Read more}
Author: Charlotte Temple (photographer)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Bernadette Devlin (writer)
Subject: Change & Risk

• "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a ..." {Read more}
Author: Andre Gide (author)
Subject: Change & Risk

• “Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reas ..." {Read more}
Author: Paracelcus (author/philosopher)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• "Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker." ..." {Read more}
Author: Unknown
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “There is nothing more wrong-headed than calling meaning a mental activity.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein (philosopher)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• This was the way her marriage worked: it was not opera. It was not heroic, or grand. ..." {Read more}
Author: Roxana Robinson (author), "A Perfect Stranger"
Subject: Love, Friendship & Sex

• To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sag ..." {Read more}
Author: Elizabeth Charles (writer)
Subject: Change & Risk

• Are Americans reduced to regaining liberty by violence? I'm convinced there's another ..." {Read more}
Author: Allen Ginsberg (poet)
Subject: Leadership & Power

• “It occurred to me that I had stepped into something like magic -- into a soft, limel ..." {Read more}
Author: Andre Aciman (author)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Morals are three-quarters manners.” ..." {Read more}
Author: Felix Frankfurter (U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1939-1962)
Subject: Living Well & Dreaming Big

• “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is m ..." {Read more}
Author: Ambrose Redmoon (writer)
Subject: Change & Risk