"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
Aldous Huxley, English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered."
Nelson Mandela (1918 - )

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
Alexander Pope, English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
The Buddha