From his (General Armstrong’s) example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
– Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, Chapter 11
I don’t really know what I love you means
I think it means don’t leave me here alone
– Neil Gaiman, Sonnet
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2005/10/other-one.html
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
– Rumi
Good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
– Thomas Alva Edison
http://www.thomasedison.org/index.php/education/edison-quotes/
You are not free until you get to the point where you have nothing to prove and aren’t trying to impress anybody.
Discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, when we don’t want to do it.
– Author unknown
Barry Popik’s discussion of source and inspiration of this quote
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
– Thomas Paine, Public Good, 1780