I have seen many storms in my life. and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. -Paulo Coelho

“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. -Felix Adler

“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Power without love is reckless and abusive; love without power is sentimental and anemic.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Tiger father begets tiger son. -Chinese Proverb

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.  -Eleanor Roosevelt

“We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.” -Pema Chodron

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. -George Sand

“Please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.”  -Alice Walker