If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. -Isaac Newton

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.”   -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -Albert Einstein

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

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. -Lao Tzu

If you could provide an environment that allowed people to be comfortable enough to be, simply, who they are, what would happen? Who would they become? -Fred Rogers

People won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou

“When we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. In fact, there are no promises of fruition at all. Instead, we are encouraged to simply look deeply at joy and sorrow, at laughing and crying, at hoping and fearing, all that lives and dies. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness.”  -Pema Chodron

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. -Brenda Ueland

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. -Socrates