Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. -Marie Curie, scientist, Nobel laureate

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” -Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. -Iroquois Nation Maxim

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”

– Martha Graham  

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe 

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. -John Locke

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -John Stuart Mill

Under history, memory and 
forgetting. 

Under memory and forgetting, 
life.

-Paul Ricoeur