A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.  ~Louis A. Berman

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Stephen Covey

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy D. Chapin Jr

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb

But the wild things cried, "Oh please don't go-we'll eat you up-we love you so!" And Max said, "No!"
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at the very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks