Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life. -Giorgos Seferis

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we’ve planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others. -Julia Cameron

It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others. -Michel de Montaigne

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome. -Randy Pausch

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. -Buckminster Fuller

Your voice dries up if you don’t use it. -Patti Page

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. -Moliere

If you or your parents are immigrants, know that you are part of a proud American tradition — the infusion of new cultures, talents and ideas, generation after generation, that has made us the greatest country on earth. -Michelle Obama

You can tell whether a person is clever by their answers. You can tell whether a person is wise by their questions. -Naguib Mahfouz