When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will disappear.

Lao Tzu

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

William E. Gladstone

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

Phaedrus

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Marie Von EbnerEschenbach

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Salvador Dalí