The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed. Bill Watterson, "Calvin", Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
US cartoonist (1958 - ) There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2-3-03 Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Center
US cartoonist & movie producer (1901 - 1966) Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. Helen Keller
US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. Lord Essex Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948) Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) | 
