“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”— Lao Tzu, amazon.com
“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”— Judy Blume, judyblumeblog.wordpress.com
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.”— William Gibson, ideas.ted.com
“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.”— Federico Fellini, goodreads.com
“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com
“The thing to remember about being a college freshman is that everyone is in the same boat you are. It's like alligators: they're just as afraid of you as you are of them.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I’ll tell you why. From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer…”— John Roberts, time.com