Quotes of the Week

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"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along."

Samuel Butler

"Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person."
Wilferd A. Peterson

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

-Plato

"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."

Kathleen T. Norris

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."

- e e cummings

"Comedy is just a funny way of saying something serious."

-Peter Ustinov

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

—Groucho Marx

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

- Mark Twain

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

– Coco Chanel 

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

-Duke Ellington

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-- Dr. Seuss

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."

--Benjamin Franklin

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

--William Shakespeare

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

--William Shakespeare

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

-- Mark Twain

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

-- Will Rogers

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

–Michael Jordan

"It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bess."

-- Elizabeth Delaney

"I believe we are here on planet earth to live, grow up, and do what we can to make this world a better place."

--Rosa Parks

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

-Langston Hughes

"Better to have education than wealth."

- Welsh proverb

"A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else."

-Booker T. Washington

"Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on."

-Eve Merriam

"It is the ability to choose which makes us human."

-Madeline L'Engle

"We drive into the future using only our rear view mirror."

-(Herbert) Marshall Mcluhan

“No man is an island entire of itself… every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.”

-John Donne

"You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks."

-Al Jolson

“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”

–Nelson Mandela

“A friend is someone with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men.”

– Horace Mann

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”

–William Shakespeare

“Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine…”

–Ben Jonson

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

– T.S. Eliot

"Be the change that you want to see in the world."

-Mahatma Ghandi