“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.”
—Dennis Wholey

“The disgrace is not in failing at something you dream about and want to do. The disgrace is not having the courage to try in the first place.”
— Edward Rendell

“Everything we do affects other people.”
— Luke Ford

“Parting a soup is not a miracle, Bruce. It’s a magic trick. A single mom who’s working two jobs, and still finds time to take her son to soccer practice, that’s a miracle. A teenager who says ‘no’ to drugs and ‘yes’ to an education, that’s a miracle. People want me to do everything for them. What they don’t realize is they have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.”
— Morgan Freeman in ‘Bruce Almighty’

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”
— William Hazlitt

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
— Leo Buscaglia

“We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.”
—Eric Hoffer

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. … Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
— John Donne

(To read the full piece, go here. It’s one of my favorite essays-?-, and one of the many items I remember distinctly from my British literature class in 11th grade. Worth reading, even today.)

“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it’s lovely to be silly at the right moments.”
— Horace