Today

"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."

- Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."

- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

- George A. Moore

"No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet."

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance.”

- Franz Kafka

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Our schools display an enormous bias in educating the mind rather than the whole person. We place major emphasis on reasoning, logic and math, with almost no concern for emotions, intuition and creativity. Our students become memorizing mimics and dull conformists, rather than exciting and feeling creators.”

- John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”

- Lemony Snicket

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

- C.S. Lewis

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela