Necessity of Experience

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

–Leonardo da Vinci

The Power of Choice

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

–Eleanor Roosevelt

Reputation or Character?

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

–Coach John Wooden

Educational Goals

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

–Grayson Kirk

What moves great minds?

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

–Socrates