"The best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else."  --Booker T. Washington

"One of the most severe types of injustice is when the oppressor plays the role of the victim and accuses the oppressed of being unjust"  --David Hilbert

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."  --Victor Hugo

"Man is indestructible because of his simple will to freedom."  --William Faulkner

"The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention."  --Sharon Salzberg

"Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier."  --Bruce Lee

"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."  --Flannery O'Connor