Words to Live By

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
-- Oscar Wilde

We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the avil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, or as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel---and to dare, to do, and to suffer.
-- Mark Hopkins, Induction address for Williams College President (1836)

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
-- source unknown