There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.

- William Hodding Carter, Jr.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

- Heraclitus

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

- Charles W. Eliot

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

- Victor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning"

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

- Tom Bodett

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.

- Claude M. Bristol

It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

- Horace Mann

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

- John Neal

It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.

- Scott O'Grady