"The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others."

-Elbert Hubbard

“When you hang around creative people, you realize there are other ways to express yourself without knocking over someone on the football field.”

-Designer Paul Frank

"The books that help you the most are those that make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
-Theodore Parker

"Every year of my life, I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good and dwell as little as possible on the evil and false."

-Cecil

"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be "happy". I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all."

-Leo C. Rosten

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Rather than spending all your time trying to do great things, spend more time trying to be a great person. That is the secret to doing great things."

-Robin Sharma