There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. -Leo Tolstoy

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. -Sarah Orne Jewett

Appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another, telling people that order and security will be restored if it weren’t for those who don’t look like us or don’t sound like us or don’t pray like we do, that’s an old playbook. It’s as old as time. And in a healthy democracy it doesn’t work. Our antibodies kick in, and people of goodwill from across the political spectrum call out the bigots and the fearmongers, and work to compromise and get things done and promote the better angels of our nature. -Barack Obama

Trust is the first step to love. -Premchand

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this. -Robert Green Ingersol

Every student needs someone who says, simply, “You mean something. You count.” -Tony Kushner

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. -Karl Popper

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships. -Ruskin Bond

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. -Marcel Proust

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -Saul Bellow