Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
- Anne Lamott

No one should judge unless they ask themself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation they might not have done the same.
- Viktor Frankl

“I detest the man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.”
- Homer

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide (1869-1951)