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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King 1929-68: speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 August 1963

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oscar Wilde

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Arthur Eddington 1882-1944: Stars and Atoms (1928)

Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-89

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."

Buddha

"The goal of yesterday will be our starting point tomorrow."

-Henry Carey

"Yes Madame, I am drunk but you are ugly and tomorrow I'll be sober."

Winston Churchill

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray