We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson“Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are BORN, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.” - Norman Mailer“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” - William ARTHUR Ward“Make things as simple as possible, but not SIMPLER.” - Albert Einstein“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson“HATING people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.” - Henry Emerson Fosdick“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” - Kahlil Gibran“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.” - Edward Eggleston“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” - Jonathan Kozol“Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t put his pants on.” - Arthur K. WATSON“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.” - Arthur Koestler“Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” - Mark Twain“O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!” - Michel de Montaigne“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” - Marcus Aurelius“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 Adams Keller