Today

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

• John Steinbeck

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

• Leonard Bernstein

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

• Seneca the Younger

“Try not to become person of success, but rather try to be person of value.”

• Albert Einstein

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences.”

• Audre Lourde

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth”

• William Faulkner

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

• Mark Twain

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

• Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”

• Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Wisdom is having things right in your life - and knowing why.”

• William Stafford