Apiarians

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee,

advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

"I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind.

In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes

for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems,

for they strengthen me."

~Charles Kettering (1876-1958)

"If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here.

That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility

to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another

and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot,

the only home we've ever known."

~Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

-Patti Page,

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of

the human spirit or the country's spirit.

-Jawaharlal Nehru

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Patience is also a form of action.

-Auguste Rodin

"Reason is always slave to the passions"

-David Hume

"My formula for living is quite simple.

I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night.

In between, I occupy myself as best I can."

~Cary Grant (1904-1986)

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

-Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate

"In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill

and forgotten what Socrates knew:

teaching is a gift, learning is a skill."

~Peter Drucker (1909-2005)