“Anyone who isn’t embarrassed

of who they were last year—

Probably isn’t learning enough. . .”

—Alain de Botton

“Optimal experience is—

Something we make happen. . .”

—Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi

“Vision without execution—

is. . .

hallucination. . .”

—Thomas Edison

“Truth—

has no special time of its own. . .

Its hour is now—

Always. . .”

—Albert Schweitzer

“To an earlier age—

knowledge was power—

merely that and nothing more. . .

To us—

it is life—

and the summum bonum. . .”

—Charles S. Peirce

“A man is rich—

in proportion to the number of things—

he can afford to let alone. . .”

—Henry David Thoreau

“We may be lost—

But we’re making good time. . .”

—Yogi Berra

“Politics have no relation to Morals. . .”

—Niccolo Machiavelli

“To understand is hard—

Once one understands—

Action is easy. . .”

—Sun Yat-sen

“Nothing in this world. . .

is so powerful—

as an idea—

whose time has come. . .”

—Victor Hugo