"What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

-Voltaire

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. 

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved;

When true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere;

When the will is sincere, then the heart is set right;

When the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated;

When the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated;

When the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly;

And when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in the world."

-Confucius

"Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world."

-Linus Pauling

"A leader

 leads

 by 

example

 not by

 force."

-Sun Tzu

"Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself."

-Tenzin Gyatso,

14th Dalai Lama