We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. --Peter Drucker

Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet. --Carl Sagan

If you think there's a problem in the world, you don't wait for other people to fix it. You have to try to fix it yourself. --Jack Davis, age 11

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. --Henry Miller

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. --W. Beran Wolfe

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. --Brenda Ueland

Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. --Helen Keller

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke. --Brenda Francis.

Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. --Buckminster Fuller

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. --Henry Ward Beecher

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. --William F. Scolavino

You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. "I cannot," never accomplished anything; "I will try," has wrought wonders. --J. Hawes

The truth is ... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else. --Countee Cullen