The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. – R.S. Donnell

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. –Marquis De Vauvenargues

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. –Lorraine Hansberry

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. –Khalil Gibran

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. -Malcolm X

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. -Martin Luther King Jr.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation‚s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us. -John F. Kennedy

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. -Sir Winston Churchill