Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it
was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the
time, or it was so then, and another day would have been
otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has
the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of
genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and
the other is always maintained and preserved.
M. Scott Peck. M.D.
