Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. George Santayana, “The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis”

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. Lyndon B. Johnson, address to the nation, November 28, 1963

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Gandhi

The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. Dodie Smith

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A.D.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. St. Francis of Assisi

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954