"Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and the occasions of love among and between peoples."
 - June Jordan

"Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change...but its roots are in great principles."
 - Millicent Fenwick

"What a delight it is to respect people!"
 - Anton Chekhov

"We go on. Because it is the hard thing to do. And we owe ourselves the difficulty."
 - Nikki Giovanni

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
- Hellen Keller

"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."
- Luciano de Crescenzo

"Ambition destroys its possessor."
- the Talmud

"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."
- Publilius Syrus, Roman philosopher

"We make our fortunes and call them fate."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Per me si va nella citta dolente,
Per me si va nell'eterno dolore,
Per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate!

(This way for the sorrowful city,
This way for eternal suffering,
This way to join the lost people.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!)"
- "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri