I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Life is a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

Thomas Merton

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Lao Tzu

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee