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"Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."

Albert Einstein

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

- Abraham Lincoln

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse."

Walt Disney

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.


-Joseph Barbera

“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”

-Henry Ward Beecher

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."

Bill Walsh

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.


-Jackson Pollock

"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

Benjamin Franklin

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.


-Buddha