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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.” — Mohandas Gandhi, 20th-century, Nobel Prize-winning, Indian nonviolent civil rights leader

The best time to plant an oak tree is twenty years ago. The next best time is now.

“There is a point of view that states everything is neutral: good and evil are only constructs – myths, if you will - created by our minds. This point of view is wrong. Good and evil do exist as objective, palpable entities. The myth is that you could ever be neutral.” -- R. Glass

“One measure of a person is what makes him angry. Petty people are angered by petty things. Greater people reserve their anger for greater causes.” -- R. Glass

"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted." Alfred Adler

"Hold fast to dreams; for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke, January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797, was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt

“A person is not an object among other objects. Objects determine each other’s path. A human being, on the other hand, is graced with the power of self-definition. His path and his destiny – of course within the framework of his abilities and environment – he decides himself. In the concentration camps, in that living laboratory, we saw some of our comrades behaving like pigs and others behaving like saints. Both alternatives are hidden in a person; and which will be realized depends on decisions and not on conditions”. – Viktor Frankl

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." -- Victor Frankl