“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”    Mark Twain

“Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.”   Frederick William Faber

“Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.”   Juan Antonio Samaranch

“Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.”
Thomas Merton

“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”   Walter Anderson

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”   Thomas A. Edison

“Speak up. You have to project! If people can’t hear you, it doesn’t matter what you say.”   Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“Vision is perhaps our greatest strength… it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.”    Li Ka-shing

“Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.”   Margaret Mead

“As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.”   Laura Nyro