“The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.”   --Newton D. Baker, American politician

“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life.   The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.”   --John Naisbitt, author

“I tell you and you forget.   I show you and you remember.   I involve you and you understand.”   --Eric Butterworth

“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react.   If you're in control, they're in control.”   --Tom Landry

“There is a beautiful complexity of growth within the human soul.   In order to glimpse this, it is helpful to visualize the mind as a tower of windows.   Sadly, many people remain trapped at the one window, looking out every day at the same scene in the same way.   Real growth is experienced when you draw back from that one window, turn, and walk around the inner tower of the soul and see all the different windows that await your gaze.   Through these different windows, you can see new vistas of possibility, presence, and creativity.   Complacency, habit, and blindness often prevent you from feeling your life.   So much depends on the frame of vision—the window through which you look.”   --John O'Donahue, Anam Cara, p. 127

“When we perform an action, the invisible within us finds a form and comes to expression.   Therefore, our work should be the place where the soul can enjoy becoming visible and present.   The rich unknown, reserved and precious within us, can emerge into visible form.   Our nature longs deeply for the possibility of expression in what we call work.”   -- John O'Donahue, Anam Cara, p. 134

“The world functions through power structures. Consequently, it is desirable that genuine people of refined sensibility, imagination, and compassion leave themselves available to take up positions of power.   A charismatic person in a powerful position can be an agent of far-reaching and positive change.”   --John O'Donahue, Anam Cara, 139

“Inside every older person is a younger person—wondering what the hell happened.”   --Cora Harvey Armstrong

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.” –Bette Davis

"It would be wonderful if the workplace were a place of real inspiration, with the work engaging your creativity.   Your gift would be welcome there, your contribution seen.   Everyone has a special gift.   Your life becomes happier when your gift can grow and come to expression in your place of work.   You are freed to receive inspiration from others.   Furthermore, because the gift of each person in relation to the overall work is unique, there need be no competition among the workers.   This makes the workplace hospitable to the energies, rhythms, and gifts of the soul…Work should not serve the owners and the employers alone.   Work should also serve the workers and the community… The entry of imagination and the awakening of the soul demand that work be understood as contributing to the creativity and improvement of the larger community.”   -- John O'Donahue, Anam Cara, 140-141

"Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens." –Jimi Hendrix

“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyrs.”   --Muhammad