Blessing

"I don't want you to just sit down at the table.

I don't want you to just eat and be content.

I want you to walk out into the fields

Where the water is shining and the rice has risen.

I want you to stand there far from this white tablecloth.

I want you to fill your hands with mud, like a blessing."  - Mary Oliver -

Human

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."  - Desmond Tutu -  

Traveling

"Traveling makes one modest – you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."  - Gustave Flaubert -

Experience

"The only purpose of education is Freedom, the only method is experience" - Leo Tolstoy -

Titles

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."  - Niccolo Macchiavelli -

Important

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."  - Margot Fonteyn -

Heart

"Stay far from timid. Only make moves if your heart's in it."  - Notorious B.I.G. -

Chance

"Chance favors the connected mind."  - Steve Johnson -

Education

"Education is not the filling of a pail (bucket), but the lighting of a fire."  - William Butler Yeats -

Together

"If you want to run fast, run alone; if you want to run far, run together."  - an African proverb -

Food

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."  - Virgina Woolf -