Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Confucius

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Shakespeare

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Leo Buscaglia

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

Lao Tzu

Americans are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Kurt Vonnegut