Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
Don’t confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions
It is not miserable to be blind, it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
-John Milton
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.