• "Art never improves, but . . . the material of art is never quite the same." -T.S. Eliot
• "Teaching is the highest form of understanding -Aristotle
• "It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning" -Claude Bernard
• "Confidence is the fuel of romantic fire" -Jim Dobson
• "A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation." -Bertrand Russell
• "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -Martin Luther King jr.
• "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. . . . The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat." -Robert Frost
• "If you don't seek first to understand, you run the risk of being like the proverbial monkey who dove into the water, grabbed a fish, and carried it up a tree in order to save it from drowning." -Elizabeth Tippett
• "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau